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dwell

noun
/dwɛl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-der. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan Old English dwellan ▲ Old Norse dveljainflu. Middle English dwellen English dwell From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”).

  1. derived from *dʰwelH-✻ — “to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”
  2. inherited from *dwaljaną✻ — “to hold up, delay; hesitate”
  3. inherited from dwellan — “to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”
  4. inherited from dwellen — “delay, live, remain, persist”

Definitions

  1. A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.

  2. A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.

  3. A planned delay in a timed control program.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow…

      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).

    2. To live

      To live; to reside.

      • I am fully resolved to go dwell in another house.
      • The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.
      • Well, since my baby left me, Well, I found a new place to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel.

    3. To linger (on)

      To linger (on); to remain fixated.

      • Stop dwelling on the past!
      • So it came about that long ere Ailie reached home it was on young Heriotside that her mind dwelled, and it was the love of him that made her eyes glow and her cheeks redden.

    4. To be in a given state.

    5. To abide

      To abide; to remain; to continue.

      • My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.
      • I'll rather dwell in my necessity.
      • Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.

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Derived

bedwell, bottom-dwelling, dwellable, dweller, dwell time, indwell, mud-dwelling, outdwell, surface-dwelling, undwelled

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dwell. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dwell. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at dwell

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA