Usually means: Live or stay as resident.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dwell: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dwell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dwell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dwell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dwell: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dwell, dwell: Wordnik
  7. dwell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dwell: Wiktionary
  9. dwell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dwell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dwell: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dwell, dwell: Dictionary.com
  13. dwell: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dwell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dwell (magazine), Dwell (retailer), Dwell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dwell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dwell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dwell: Rhymezone
  19. dwell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dwell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dwell: Free Dictionary
  22. dwell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dwell: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dwell: Legal dictionary
  2. dwell: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dwell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dwell: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DWELL: Acronym Finder
  2. dwell: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dwell: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dwell: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dwell: Fiberglass Glossary

(Note: See dwelled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
noun:  (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
noun:  (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
noun:  (automotive) 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).
verb:  (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
verb:  (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]
verb:  (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
verb:  (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.

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