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dwell

dwell [ dwel ]


intransitive verb  (past and past participle dwelt [ dwelt ] or dwelled, present participle dwell·ing, 3rd person present singular dwells)
Definition:
 
reside: to live and have a home in a particular place ( literary )



noun  (plural dwells)
Definition:
 
surface permitting delay: the portion of a cam's surface that permits a machine's operation to pause for a period of time at a given position

[ Old English dwellan "lead astray" < Indo-European, "rise in a cloud"]

dwell·er noun
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