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RESIDENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital
Example:
the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital
Synonyms:
house physician; resident; resident physician
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("resident" is a kind of...):
doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("resident" is a kind of...):
denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resident"):
Alexandrian (a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt))
coaster (a resident of a coastal area)
colonial (a resident of a colony)
dalesman (a person who lives in the dales of northern England)
housemate (someone who resides in the same house with you)
inmate (one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital))
metropolitan (a person who lives in a metropolis)
outlier (a person who lives away from his place of work)
owner-occupier (an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in)
sojourner (a temporary resident)
stater (a resident of a particular state or group of states)
suburbanite (a resident of a suburb)
tenant (any occupant who dwells in a place)
towner; townsman (a resident of a town or city)
Antonym:
nonresident (someone who does not live in a particular place)
Derivation:
reside (live (in a certain place))
reside (make one's home in a particular place or community)
resident (living in a particular place)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Living in a particular place
Example:
resident aliens
Classified under:
Antonym:
nonresident (not living in a particular place or owned by permanent residents)
Derivation:
reside (live (in a certain place))
reside (make one's home in a particular place or community)
residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)
resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of animals that do not migrate
Synonyms:
nonmigratory; resident
Classified under:
Adjectives
Derivation:
residency (the act of dwelling in a place)
Context examples:
Two of the sky’s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST).
(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)
Ubinas’s frequent ash emissions are irritating the eyes and throats of thousands of local residents, especially children.
(Fresh lava arrives at Ubinas volcano, NASA)
The recognition that low neighborhood socioeconomic conditions have an impact on the services and opportunities available to its residents and have a wide and long-lasting effect on their economic, social and educational development.
(Concentrated Disadvantage, NCI Thesaurus)
Professional nursing care provided in a long-term care/nursing facility to residents unable to provide for themselves a safe and adequate level of care.
(Long-Term Care Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)
Mononuclear phagocytes derived from bone marrow precursors but resident in the peritoneum.
(Peritoneal Macrophage, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Homocysteine-responsive endoplasmic reticulum-resident ubiquitin-like domain member 1 protein (391 aa, ~44 kDa) is encoded by the human HERPUD1 gene.
(Homocysteine-Responsive Endoplasmic Reticulum-Resident Ubiquitin-Like Domain Member 1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
U.S. residents generate 1.6 million tons of household hazardous waste per year.
(Hazardous Waste, Environmental Protection Agency)
The physician may have the added responsibility of supervising resident physicians or medical students, and involving consulting physicians in the prescribed plan of care.
(Attending Physician, NCI Thesaurus)
Residents, communes etc call for them.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
TF, a transmembrane protein and initiator of the coagulation cascade, is overexpressed in many tumor cells and tumor-resident endothelial cells.
(Anti-TF Monoclonal Antibody-MMAE Conjugate, NCI Thesaurus)
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