Dwell can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| dwell - originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" | ||
| dwell - exist or be situated within; "Strange notions inhabited her mind" | ||
| dwell - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" | ||
| dwell - think moodily or anxiously about something | ||
| dwell - come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" | ||
Noun |
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| dwell - A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. | ||
| dwell - A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. | ||
| dwell - A planned delay in a timed control program. | ||
| dwell - In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each. |
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| 1. | verb | The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country. | |
| 2. | verb | Don't dwell on the past. | |
| 3. | verb | In a past-oriented society, people dwell on the past and on tradition. | |
| 4. | verb | Don't dwell on your past mistakes! | |
| 5. | verb | Don't dwell on your past failures. | |
| 6. | verb | Don't dwell too much upon the subject. | |
| 7. | verb | I will not dwell any longer upon this subject. | |
| 8. | verb | I try not to dwell on the past. | |
| 9. | verb | You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap. | |
| 10. | verb | I know where you dwell. | |
| 11. | verb | Tom focuses on the positive and doesn't dwell on the negative. | |
| 12. | verb | No time to dwell on this, let's get to the next sentence. | |
| 13. | verb | Lions dwell in Africa. | |
| 14. | verb | I dwell the longer upon this Subject from the Desire I have to make the Society of an English Yahoo by any Means not insupportable; and therefore I intreat those who have any Tincture of this absurd Vice, that they will not presume to appear in my Sight. | |
| 15. | verb | Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, the past is no more. The future has not yet come. Life is here and now. | |
| 16. | noun | Those hours that with gentle work did frame the lovely gaze where every eye does dwell will play the tyrants to the very same and that unfair which fairly does excel. | |
| 17. | noun | Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home: Where sisters dwell and brothers meet, Quarrels should never come. | |
| 18. | noun | O Muse, assist me and inspire my song, / the various causes and the crimes relate, / for what affronted majesty, what wrong / to injured Godhead, what offence so great / Heaven's Queen resenting, with remorseless hate, / could one renowned for piety compel / to brave such troubles, and endure the weight / of toils so many and so huge. O tell / how can in heavenly minds such fierce resentment dwell? | |
| 19. | noun | "Ye know mad Scylla, and her monsters' yell, / and the dark caverns where the Cyclops dwell." | |
| 20. | noun | And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it. | |
| 21. | noun | In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother. | |
| 22. | noun | And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell: but thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son. | |
| 23. | noun | And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen. |
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| The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country. |
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| Don't dwell on the past. |
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| In a past-oriented society, people dwell on the past and on tradition. | |
| Don't dwell on your past mistakes! | |
| Don't dwell on your past failures. | |
| Don't dwell too much upon the subject. | |
| I will not dwell any longer upon this subject. | |
| I try not to dwell on the past. | |
| You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap. | |
| I know where you dwell. | |
| Tom focuses on the positive and doesn't dwell on the negative. | |
| No time to dwell on this, let's get to the next sentence. | |
| Lions dwell in Africa. | |
| I dwell the longer upon this Subject from the Desire I have to make the Society of an English Yahoo by any Means not insupportable; and therefore I intreat those who have any Tincture of this absurd Vice, that they will not presume to appear in my Sight. | |
| Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, the past is no more. The future has not yet come. Life is here and now. | |
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| Those hours that with gentle work did frame the lovely gaze where every eye does dwell will play the tyrants to the very same and that unfair which fairly does excel. | |
| Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home: Where sisters dwell and brothers meet, Quarrels should never come. | |
| O Muse, assist me and inspire my song, / the various causes and the crimes relate, / for what affronted majesty, what wrong / to injured Godhead, what offence so great / Heaven's Queen resenting, with remorseless hate, / could one renowned for piety compel / to brave such troubles, and endure the weight / of toils so many and so huge. O tell / how can in heavenly minds such fierce resentment dwell? | |
| "Ye know mad Scylla, and her monsters' yell, / and the dark caverns where the Cyclops dwell." | |
| And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it. | |
| In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother. | |
| And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell: but thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son. | |
| And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen. | |