house

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  VESTIBULE OF A POMPEIAN HOUSE
• WordNet 3.6
  • v house provide housing for "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"
  • v house contain or cover "This box houses the gears"
  • n house play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults "the children were playing house"
  • n house a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families "he has a house on Cape Cod","she felt she had to get out of the house"
  • n house a building in which something is sheltered or located "they had a large carriage house"
  • n house a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented "the house was full"
  • n house aristocratic family line "the House of York"
  • n house the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments "he worked for a brokerage house"
  • n house a social unit living together "he moved his family to Virginia","It was a good Christian household","I waited until the whole house was asleep","the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
  • n house an official assembly having legislative powers "a bicameral legislature has two houses"
  • n house the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema "the house applauded","he counted the house"
  • n house the members of a religious community living together
  • n house the management of a gambling house or casino "the house gets a percentage of every bet"
  • n house (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
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Additional illustrations & photos:

House of the Tragic Poet

Timbered House in the Market Place, Godalming

Wotton House

Old Timbered House near Bletchingley

The Manor-House at Beauport

Manor House, Sillery

Old Parliament House, Quebec

"My magnificent order at the Public House"

• Interesting fact: In 1825, the first toilet was installed in the White House
• • House A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel. "The last remaining pillar of their house ,
    The one transmitter of their ancient name."
  • House (Com) A firm, or commercial establishment.
  • House A public house; an inn; a hotel.
  • House A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
  • House A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. "Houses are built to live in; not to look on.""Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
    Are from their hives and houses driven away."
  • House (Astrol) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
  • House An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house .
  • House Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.
  • House One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.
  • House The body, as the habitation of the soul. "This mortal house I'll ruin,
    Do Cæsar what he can."
  • House The grave. "The narrow house ."
  • House Those who dwell in the same house; a household. "One that feared God with all his house ."
  • House To admit to residence; to harbor. "Palladius wished him to house all the Helots."
  • House To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
  • House To drive to a shelter.
  • House (Astrol) To have a position in one of the houses. See House n., 8. "Where Saturn houses ."
  • House (Naut) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
  • House To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. "At length have housed me in a humble shed.""House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse."
  • House To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge. "You shall not house with me."
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• Interesting fact: In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring
• • n house A building designed to be used as a place of residence, or of human occupation for any purpose: as, a dwelling-house; a banking-house; a house of worship; a public house. In law the word house, used for a dwelling-place, is sometimes interpreted as excluding and sometimes as including outbuildings.
  • n house Hence An abiding-place; an abode; a place or means of lodgment; a fixed shelter or investment: as, the hermit-crab carries its house on its back.
  • n house A building used for some purpose other than human occupation: usually with a descriptive prefix: as, a cow-house; a warehouse; a tool-house.
  • n house The persons collectively who dwell together under one roof; a family; a household.
  • n house A family regarded as consisting of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from one stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race: as, the house of Hapsburg; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel or of Judah.
  • n house A legislative body; usually, one of the divisions of the legislative branch of a government acting separately, or of any deliberative body divided into two chambers: as, the House of Lords or of Commons in the British Parliament; the House of Representatives in the United States Congress; the House of Bishops and the House of Delegates in the American Episcopal Church. The less numerous or higher in rank of the two bodies composing a bicameral legislature is commonly spoken of, though not officially designated, as the upper house, the other as the lower house.
  • n house Specifically, in the United States, the lower house, or House of Representatives, the more numerous of the two bodies of the national legislature. The name is also given in some States to the corresponding body in the State legislature. See congress, 4.
  • n house The audience or attendance at a place of entertainment.
  • n house In com., a firm or commercial establishment: as, the house of Jones Brothers.
  • n house Chamber; room; specifically, in provincial English use, the ordinary sitting-room in a farm-house; in sulphuric-acid works, one of the chambers in which the acid is formed.
  • n house In astrology, a twelfth part of the heavens as divided by great circles drawn through the north and south points of the horizon, in the same way as meridians pass through the earth's poles. The heavens, visible and invisible, excluding the parts that never rise and that never set, were thus divided into twelve parts, six being above the horizon and six below. But there was considerable diversity in the details of the rule for dividing the heavens into houses. They are of different relative magnitudes. according to the different rules which were used for finding their limits. The twelve houses were numbered round from east to south, and so on, beginning with that which lay in the east immediately below the horizon. The first house was called the house of life; the second, that of fortune or riches; the third that of brethren; the fourth, that of relations; the fifth, that of children; the sixth, that of health; the seventh, that of marriage; the eighth, that of death or the upper portal; the ninth, that of religion; the tenth, that of dig nities; the eleventh, that of friends and benefactors; and the twelfth, that of enemies or of captivity. The succeedent houses are the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh. The cadent houses are the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth.
  • n house A square or division on a chess-board.—
  • n house The workhouse; poorhouse.
  • n house An outhouse; a privy.
  • house To put or receive into a house; provide with a dwelling or residence; put or keep under a roof; cover; shelter; protect by covering.
  • house To cause to take shelter.
  • house To hide.
  • house Nautical: To arrange in the form of a ridged roof, as an awning, so as to shed rain.
  • house To remove from exposure; put in a place of deposit or a state of security: as, to house a boat or a sail. A gun is housed by running it in on deck and securing it by tackle, muzzle-lashing, and breeching, after the breech has been depressed so that the muzzle rests against the side of the ship above the port. Topmasts and topgallantmasts are housed by partly lowering them, to lessen the effect of wind on the masts and rigging.
  • house In carpentry, to fix in a socket, mortice, or other space cut out, as a board or timber fitting into another.
  • house To take shelter or lodging; take up abode; reside.
  • house In astrology, to be situated in a house or region of the heavens.
  • n house A covering; housing; especially, a covering of textile material, as for a piece of furniture, fitted more or less accurately to the object covered.
  • n house A child's coverlet.
  • house To cover with or as with a housing.
  • n house In some tunicates, as Appendicularia and Oikopleura, a temporary gelatinous envelop, representing the tunic of other forms. It is formed with great rapidity as a secretion from the surface of the ectoderm and is frequently thrown off and renewed.
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• Interesting fact: In their lifetime, house cats spend approximately 10,950 hours purring
• • n House hows a building for dwelling in: a dwelling-place: an inn: household affairs: a family: kindred: a trading establishment: one of the twelve divisions of the heavens in astrology: one of the estates of the legislature (House of Lords or Upper House, House of Commons or Lower House; also Upper and Lower Houses of Convocation, House of Representatives, &c.): at Oxford, 'The House,' Christ Church College: the audience at a place of entertainment, a theatre, &c. (a full house, a thin house):
  • v.t House howz to protect by covering: to shelter: to store: to provide houses for
  • v.i House to take shelter: to reside
  • adj House pertaining to the house and family
  • adj House domestic
  • n House hows (coll.) the workhouse
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  “Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.”
• Sigmund Freud

  

  “The ego is not master in its own house.”
• Zsa Zsa Gabor

  

  “I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
• Danish Proverb

  

  “The road to a friend's house is never long.”
• Le Corbusier

  

  “A house is a machine for living in.”
• Daniel Webster

  

  “The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.”

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