Difference between Brood and Dwell

What is the difference between Brood and Dwell?

Brood as a verb is to keep an egg warm to make it hatch. while Dwell as a verb is to live; to reside.

Brood

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. To protect. To dwell upon moodily and at length.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. The children in one family.

Example sentence: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Dwell

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To live; to reside.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.A planned delay in a timed control program.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).

Example sentence: I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

We hope you now know whether to use Brood or Dwell in your sentence.

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