1Have one's permanent home in a particular place.

1. 1.1 Be situated.
   the paintings now reside on the walls of a restaurant

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The painting has resided in a New England family since 1923.
   • Most of the REs reside in the intergenic regions and are believed to be functionally neutral.
   • The stem cell population resides at the very apex of the meristem and replenishes those cells that are lost during organogenesis on the meristem flanks.
   • Analysis of the sequence confirmed our mapping studies and showed that the ear gene resided very close to ea.
   • Applications and data resided on online disk, and if it failed your application was down.
   • Drosophila genes undergo complex splicing patterns, reside close to their neighbors, and often overlap.
   • I slowly made my way along the hallway where my locker resided.
   • The painting first resided in Fontainebleau, later in the Palace of Versailles.
   • The bulk of these treasures resided at the Imperial Household Museum.
   • They discovered that the gene for the disorder resides on the 5th chromosome.
   • The only apparent regulatory difference is a short time delay when activators reside in the cytoplasm before binding to plasmids.
   • A range of d = 200 cM includes all genes residing on the same mouse chromosome.
   • The first Web site is an English-only site that resides on a British server.
   • Monet's Waterlilies, painted in 1908, is arguably the finest of the three paintings on the theme which reside in Cardiff.
   • Log analysis is understandably imperative for SOX compliance, particularly because financial data resides on financial servers.
   • One of several closely related genes, eft - 4, resides on the X chromosome.
   • Let your heart settle upon the unifying message that resides behind all things.
   • She was in a room fit for a queen from the 1800's, with gold linings on the walls, red velvet decorating the spaces where paintings didn't reside.
   • If the thought of your critical data residing on an ASP server gives you chills, all is not lost.
   • ‘Home’ has been four walls within which my stuff resides, and my clothing gets washed and dried.
   • The soluble alkaline IT is thought to reside in the cytoplasm.

   Synonyms

   be situated, be placed, be found, be located, lie, repose
2. 1.2 (of power or a right) belong by right to a person or body.
   legislative powers reside with the federal assembly

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But while spiritual power rests in Geneva, temporal power resides in the capitals.
   • However, real power resides with the P5, and their individual right of veto.
   • In a Republic, the real power should reside in the Legislature.
   • There is no need, because real power resides in the security council, where the US, Britain and France have a veto.
   • Power often resides in business leaders who are not always committed to the execution of a new idea.
   • If the State decides from whom to take and to whom to give, the power residing in the State's hands is enormous.
   • The foundation of the American experiment was the idea that power resides with the people, and that the people grant to the government the power to govern.
   • They will go because effective power resides not with the elected but tame House of Commons, but with the Crown and is vested in the person of the Prime Minister on behalf of the Sovereign.
   • Government authority has traditionally been weak among the scattered communities of the south-east, where a great deal of the power still resides with tribal leaders, or aghas.
   • The point of talking about the commons is to reassert a basic truth: Power does not reside in government and markets alone.
   • For various reasons - historical, social, economic and personal - the power residing in the employer means little bargaining in fact takes place, but there may be some.
   • The center of gravity of political power resides in the Gangetic valley of Northern India which is largely being bypassed by the technology led economic rejuvenation in India.
   • Social stratification existed, with political power residing in a chief of state or a royal family, depending on the size of the state.
   • Their power resides there and that's the way they want to keep it.
   • In fact, many leaders feel that the UN General Assembly has sometimes been reduced to a talking shop while real power resides in the Security Council.
   • In the seventeenth century, and before, power resided in the military, but the state did not have the monopoly of armed force.
   • The power resides in the one who controls the army.
   • If power ultimately resides in the people, the people who grant MPs a temporary lien on that power for five years at a time, then only the people can decide whether or not to hand it over for good.
   • But it is also intended to prevent too much power residing with either.
   • In England, the power will reside with the secretary of state alone, but in Wales it will be in the hands of the National Assembly.

   Synonyms

   belong to, be vested in, be bestowed on, be conferred on, be entrusted to, be in the hands of
3. 1.3 (of a quality) be present or inherent in something.
   the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It is thus a non-reductive definition, because both its subject matter and its theoretical object reside at the semantic level.
   • The essential qualities of Judo reside in the execution of throws with finesse, without the expenditure of strength, joined to an irresistible rhythm.
   • Its stature resides in its quietude and simplicity, yet with an inner energy which reflects a lifetime's contemplation of the harmonies of art.
   • Thus it is that the whiteness of white men resides in the tragic quality of their giving way to darkness and the heroism of channeling or resisting it.
   • Qualities can only reside in substances and cannot occur on their own.

   Synonyms

   be inherent in, be intrinsic to, be present in, inhere in