Intern vs. Resident — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Intern and Resident
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Intern
A student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.
Resident
A diplomatic official residing in a foreign seat of government.
Intern
Confine (someone) as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons
The family were interned for the duration of the war as enemy aliens
Resident
A colonial official acting as adviser to the ruler of a protected state, often having quasi-gubernatorial powers.
Intern
Serve as an intern.
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Resident
A member of an intelligence-gathering or nonuniformed law enforcement agency who resides and oversees operations in a certain locale
The FBI resident in St. Louis.
Intern
A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.
Resident
One who lives in a dormitory.
Intern
A physician who has recently graduated from medical school and is learning medical practice in a hospital under supervision, prior to beginning a residency program.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized clinical training in a hospital, usually after completing an internship.
Intern
One who is interned; an internee.
Resident
A nonmigratory bird or other animal.
Intern
To train or serve as an intern.
Resident
Dwelling in a particular place; residing
Resident aliens.
Intern
To confine, especially in wartime.
Resident
Living somewhere in connection with duty or work.
Intern
A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
Resident
Filling a particular role in a group or organization
The museum's official resident poet.
The office's resident gossipmonger.
Intern
A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
Resident
Inherently present
Resident anxieties.
Intern
A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.
Resident
Nonmigratory
Resident fauna.
Intern
(transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Resident
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
Intern
To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
Resident
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
Intern
To internalize.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized medical training.
She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
Intern
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Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Intern
(intransitive) To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.
Resident
(legal) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
Intern
(archaic) Internal.
Resident
(espionage) rezident
Intern
Internal.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Resident in the city or in the country
Intern
To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.
Resident
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
He is our resident computer expert.
Intern
To hold until the end of a war, as enemy citizens in a country at the time of outbreak of hostilities; - an action performed by countries.
Resident
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
Intern
A resident physician in a hospital, especially one who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising under supervision of experienced physicians, as a continuation of the training process; a house physician; also called houseman in Britain.
Resident
Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Intern
A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and other times it is not; as, a white house intern; an intern in a law firm.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; - opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
Intern
An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
Resident
Fixed; stable; certain.
One there still resident as day and night.
Intern
Deprive of freedom;
During WWII, Japanese were interned in camps in the West
Resident
One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
Intern
Work as an intern;
The toung doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; - a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
Resident
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Resident
A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital;
The resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital
Resident
Living in a particular place;
Resident aliens
Resident
Used of animals that do not migrate
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