单词 | resident |
释义 | resident —residentship, n. /rez"i deuhnt/, n. 1. a person who resides in a place. 2. a physician who joins the medical staff of a hospital as a salaried employee for a specified period to gain advanced training usually in a particular field, being in full-time attendance at the hospital and often living on the premises. 3. a diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court. 4. (formerly) a representative of the British governor general at a native court in India. 5. (formerly) the governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies. adj. 6. residing; dwelling in a place. 7. living or staying at a place in discharge of duty. 8. (of qualities) existing; intrinsic. 9. (of birds) not migratory. 10. - a. encoded and permanently available to a computer user, as a font in a printer's ROM or software on a CD-ROM. b. (of a computer program) currently active or standing by in computer memory. [1350-1400; ME < L resident- (s. of residens), prp. of residere to RESIDE; see -ENT] |
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