Meaning of house | Babel Free

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1. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
   countable, uncountable
2. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
3. A particular chamber of political representation
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
4. Ellipsis of House of Representatives.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
5. House music.
   uncountable
6. An apartment building within a public housing estate.
   Hong-Kong, countable, uncountable
7. An apartment building within a public housing estate
8. Ellipsis of House of Commons.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
9. In an extremely speedy manner: ran away like a house on fire; tickets that sold like a house afire.
10. third-person singular present indicative
11. A container; a thing which houses another.
    countable, uncountable
12. A container; a thing which houses another
13. Ellipsis of House of Parliament.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
14. At the expense of the establishment; free: food and drinks on the house.
15. second-person singular imperative
16. Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
    uncountable
17. Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing
18. More generally, a shortened name for any chamber of a legislature that is named "House of...", especially where the other chamber(s) are not so named, or where there is no other chamber (unicameral).
    countable, uncountable
19. To organize one's affairs in a sensible, logical way.
20. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
    countable, uncountable
21. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these
22. A placename:
    countable, uncountable
23. A village in Quay County, New Mexico, United States.
    countable, uncountable
24. A broad category of music that emerged from the dance club culture of the early 1980s. House music is predominantly instrumental, involves the use of music and sounds sampled from a wide range of sources, and has a simple but very dominant beat.
25. The people who live in a house; a household.
    countable, uncountable
26. An unincorporated community in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
    countable, uncountable
27. a payment given by a government to people who are entitled to it according to certain criteria (eg poverty) when they buy or rent a house, an apartment etc. huisvestingstoelaag مُخَصَّصات ماليّه للسَّكَن социална помощ auxílio moradia státní podpora na bydlení der Lasten-, Mietzuschuß (Wohngeld) boligsikring στεγαστικό δάνειο subsidio de vivienda elamispinnahüvitis کمک هزینه asumistuki allocation logement הַלווָאַת דִיוּר מְהַמֵדִינָה गृह लाभ, घरेलु लाभ stambena potpora szociálpolitikai támog...
    eg
28. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
    countable, uncountable
29. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house.
    countable, uncountable
30. a person who arranges the sale or letting of houses. eiendomsagent وكيل بيع وشِراء بيوت посредник за покупко-продажба и наемане на къщи agente imobiliário obchodník s nemovitostmi der Häusermakler ejendomsmægler μεσίτηςagente inmobiliario kinnisvaramaakler مؤسسه معاملات ملكی kiinteistönvälittäjä agent/-ente immobilier/-ière מְתָווֵך דִירוֹת गृहाभिकर्ता agent za prodaju nekretnina lakásügynök agen perumahan fasteignasali agente immobiliare 家屋周旋人 부동산 소개업자 nekilnojamojo turto agentas dzīvokļu aģ...
31. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
    countable, uncountable
32. Christ Church, Oxford.
    countable, dated, uncountable
33. a type of arrest in which a person is not allowed to leave his own house. He was kept under house arrest. huisarres إعْتِقال مَنْزِلي домашен арест prisão domiciliar domácí vězení der Hausarrest husarrest περιορισμός κατ' οίκον arresto domiciliario koduarest محبوس در خانه aresti assignation à résidence מַעֲצָר בַּיִת नजर बंदी kucni pritvor házi őrizet tahanan rumah stofufangelsi arresti domiciliari 自宅監禁 자택 연금 namų areštas mājas arests penahanan dalam rumah huisarresthusarrest areszt domowy په...
34. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
    countable, uncountable
35. a type of boat, usually with a flat bottom, which is built to be lived in. woonskuit قارِب سَكَن голяма лодка, приспособена за живеене casa flutuante obytný člun das Hausboot husbåd πλωτό σπίτι casa flotante paatmaja قایق خانه مانند asuntovene bateau-maison בֵּית-סִירָה शिकारा lada za stanovanje, splav-kucica folyami lakóhajó perahu rumah húsbátur casa galleggiante 尾形船 (거주용의) 집같이 생긴 배 plaukiojantis namas peldoša māja rumah bot woonboothusbåt łódź mieszkalna کورته ورته کیږدی casa flutuante am­...
    usually
36. A workhouse.
    countable, historical, uncountable
37. a person who breaks into a house in order to steal. inbreker لِص مَنازِل крадец с взлом ladrão bytový zloděj der Einbrecher indbrudstyv διαρρήκτηςladrón murdvaras سارق murtovaras cambrioleur/-euse פורץ सेंधमार provalnik betörő pembobol rumah innbrotsþjófur scassinatore 押込み強盗 가택 침입자 įsilaužėlis kramplauzis penjenayah pecah rumah inbreker, insluiperinnbruddstyvwłamywacz کور غلا کوونکی، غل ladrão spărgător (de case) грабитель-взломщик vlamač, vykrádač bytov, domov vlomilec provalnik inbrottstjuv...
38. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
    countable, uncountable
39. huisbraak سَرِقَة منْزِل، السَّطو على البيوت кражба с взлом assalto vloupání der Einbruch indbrud διάρρηξη allanamiento de morada murdvargus دستبرد murtovarkaus cambriolageפריצה मकान में सेंध लगाना provala betörés pembobolan rumah innbrot furto con scasso 押込み強盗 주거 침입 įsilaužimas ielaušanās mājā pemecahan rumah inbraakinnbruddwłamanie لاس پریکونکی assalto spargere кража со взломом vlámanie do domov vlom provala inbrott การบุกรุกเข้าบ้าน ev soyma/hırsızlığı 闖空門 крадіжка зі зломом گھر میں دن دہا...
40. A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
    countable, uncountable
41. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
    countable, uncountable
42. A place of rest or repose.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
43. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
    countable, uncountable
44. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
    countable, uncountable
45. One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
    countable, uncountable
46. The fourth Lenormand card.
    countable, uncountable
47. A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
48. The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
    countable, uncountable
49. Lotto; bingo.
    countable, uncountable
50. A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
    uncountable
51. A small stand of trees in a swamp.
    US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
52. A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
    countable, uncountable
53. The end zone.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“This is my house and my family's ancestral home.”

“The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,[…].”

“Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.”

“The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live.”

“Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.”

“one that feared God with all his house”

“The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.”

“On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.”

“A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.”

“I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.”

“One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.”

“The house always wins.”

“The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house.”

“Frazier and Gary worked for me for free — for six months — they didn't take any money from the house. They worked for tips.”

“To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.”

“After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.”

“Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.”

“The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.”

“A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.”

“Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.”

“Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].”

“I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.”

“Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.”

“As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.”

“[…] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.”

“And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.”

“The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.”

“Prop. 50 proponents, including Newsom and Democrats in the state Legislature and in Congress, say the proposition is needed to counteract Texas’ recent redistricting efforts to give the GOP more House seats.”

“The incumbent and embattled Henyard lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary to Trustee Jason House by a landslide, with House winning nearly 90% of the vote.”

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