Difference between Reside and Occupy

RESIDE vs OCCUPY: VERB

Live (in a certain place)
As of time or space
Occupy the whole of
Keep busy with
Be present in; be inside of
March aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
Be on the mind of
Engage or engross wholly
To fill (time).
To fill (space).
To live or reside in.
To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
To fill or hold (an official position or role).
To hold the attention of.
To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
Require (time or space)
Consume all of one's attention or time
Assume, as of positions or roles

To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
To sink; to settle, as sediment.
To live in a place permanently or for an extended period.
To be inherently present; exist.
To be vested, as a power or right.
To be located or stored.

To do business in; to busy one's self with.
To use; to expend; to make use of.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill.
To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
To engage or employ the attention or concentration of.
To seize possession of and maintain control over forcibly or by conquest.
To hold or fill (an office or position).
To dwell or reside in (an apartment, for example).
To fill up (time or space).

Synonyms Sojourn, Continue, etc. (see abide), be domiciled, be domiciliated, make a home.
To abide or be inherent in, as a quality; inhere.
To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; have a settled abode for a time, or a dwelling or home; specifically, to be in official residence (said of holders of benefices, etc.).
To sink to the bottom, as of liquids; settle; subside, in general.

To trade; traffic; carry on business.
To be in possession or occupation; hold possession; be an occupant; have possession and use.
Synonyms 1-3. Hold, Own, etc. See possess.
To possess; enjoy (with an obscene double meaning).
To use; make use of.
To employ; give occupation to; engage; busy: often used reflexively: as, to occupy one's self about something.
To take up and follow as a business or employment; be employed about; ply.
To hold, as an office; fill.
To take up, as room or space, or attention, interest, etc.; cover or fill; engross: as, to occupy too much space; to occupy the time with reading; to occupy the attention.
To take possession of and retain or keep; enter upon the possession and use of; hold and use; especially, to take possession of (a place as a place of residence, or in warfare a town or country) and become established in it.

Domicile, Remain, Belong, Living, Lived, Lodge in, People, Shack, Repose, Rest, Dwell, Populate, Occupy, Live, Inhabit

Reoccupy, Lodge in, Use up, Interest, Concern, Worry, Busy, Engross, Absorb, Engage, Take, Invade, Fill, Reside, Inhabit

Dwelling, Residence, Stay, Inhabited, Domicile, Remain, Living, Lived, People, Shack, Rest, Dwell, Populate, Occupy, Live

Serve, Employ, Monopolize, Populate, Reoccupy, Use up, Interest, Concern, Worry, Busy, Engross, Take, Invade, Fill, Reside

Masonry default: Try to occupy highest available position.
Hydrogen atoms occupy two corners of the tetrahedron, and the nonbonding electron pairs of the oxygen atom occupy the other two corners.
DANGEROUS BUILDING DO NOT OCCUPY It is a misdemeanor infraction to occupy this building, or to remove or deface this notice.
Harlan, he thought, believed that they should occupy the position that historically they were intended to occupy by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The landlord plans to occupy the property or have close family occupy the property.
Occupy recovers the word from its martial meaning of invade and occupy, while retaining the resistance to removal inherent in the word.
Occupy UC Davis is a series of Occupy Movement demonstrations at the University of California, Davis.
The key Occupy themes ofwealth inequality and economic injustice had been tacitly marginalized in American political discourse but Occupy dragged them to the forefront.
However for discussion purposes it will occupy effectively the same amount of memory that a package built to run once per minute would occupy.
Unlike liquids, however, unconstrained gases do not occupy a fixed volume, but instead expand to fill whatever space they occupy.