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ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด R – Reside & live & dwell

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Reside - verb = ‘ri-SAHYD’ & noun =’REE-sahyd’

ออกเสียง Live = ‘LIV’- verb = ‘to have life’ orLAHYV’- adj. = ‘being alive’

ออกเสียง dwell = ‘DWEL

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Live & Reside

The word reside moved into the English lexicon in the 1400s,

where it settled alongside older, more established terms like live, abide and dwell.

The details of its provenance aren't certain

—it came to 15th century English from either the French of the day (the word resider) or directly from the Latin residēre.

Live, abide, and dwell

had been members of the English language

since the language's earliest days,

and if any of them (or the people who used them)

had feelings about the interloper, those feelings have been lost over time.

Shakespeare found reside occasionally useful,

as in this from Antony and Cleopatra,

where he'd already used one of the other words in the sentence:

Our separation so abides and flies / That thou, residing here, goes yet with me, / And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

House & mansion

Mansion was a versatile term in its early English days of the late 14th century. It could, as it does now, refer specifically to a very fancy house

—in particular a "manor" house

—or it could refer to something much, much less pretentious,

like a shack or even a tent.

It could, in fact, refer to anything someone could live or stay in.

That broadest meaning was no longer in use by the end of the 18th century.

(Other meanings of mansion had also by then fallen by the wayside, including its use as a synonym of stay

meaning "the act of remaining or dwelling,"

as when Francis Bacon wrote in his 1605 Advancement of Learning

"... the solidness of the earth is for the station and mansion of living creatures....")

English speakers had been using house for centuries

before mansion came along.

House comes from the Old English hūs

and works for houses large and small.

Collins COBUILD English Usage

live

If you live in a particular place, it is your home.

I have some friends who live in Nairobi.

I live in a house just down the road from you.

If you want to say that a place is someone's home,

don't use a progressive form of live.

You only use a progressive form

when you are saying that someone has just moved to a place,

or that it is their home for a temporary period.

Her husband had been released from prison and was now living at the house.

Remember that you are living in someone else's home.

We had to leave Ziatur, the town where we had been living.

If you want to say how long you have been living in a place,

you use for or since.

You say, for example,

'I have been living here for four years',

'I have been living here since 2007', or

'I have lived here since 2007'.

Don't say 'I am living here for four years' or 'I am living here since 2007'.

He has been living in France now for almost two years.

She has lived there since she was six.

See for, since

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Reside & live & dwell

Live is commonly, and properly,

used to indicate occupying a house, home, or other place of habitation:

“He lived there for ten years.”

Reside also means to exist permanently orfor a time in a certain place,

but the term is somewhat pretentious and should be reserved for

the act of living in an important or historic setting:

“The Governor now resides in a mansion furnished by the state.”

“When she is in residence in London, the Queen resides at Buckingham Palace.”

Dwell is somewhat old-fashioned (dwellin peace),

but in noun formation (dwelling) is still popular and correct:

“His dwelling is costly cooperative apartment.”