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Reside vs Exist - What's the difference?

reside | exist |

As verbs the difference between reside and exist

is that reside is while exist is to be; have existence; have being or reality.

reside

English

Verb

(resid)
  • To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
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  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 citation , passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
  • To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
  • To sink; to settle, as sediment.
  • See also

    * abide * dwell * live * stay

    Anagrams

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    exist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to be; have existence; have being or reality
  • * 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 12:
  • Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:
  • * 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 19:
  • , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
  • * 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 55:
  • , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

    Synonyms

    * be

    Derived terms

    * existence * existent * existential * existentialist * existentialism * existentially

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