What's the difference between abode and house?

Abode


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Abide
  • () pret. of Abide.
  • (n.) Act of waiting; delay.
  • (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • (n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
  • (v. t.) An omen.
  • (v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.
  • (v. i.) To be ominous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From London to New York to Hong Kong, many are crammed into micro-apartments that cost hundreds of pounds or dollars a month to rent, unsure when they will be able to afford a more permanent abode.
  • (2) Factors that militated against successful rehabilitation were the severity of the patients' illness at presentation, unemployment coupled with poor educational status and distance from the hospital of patient's normal abode.
  • (3) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
  • (4) Socially, the majority of these were lonely and many of these had no fixed abode.
  • (5) Once home to Princess Margaret until she died in 2002, Apartment 1A – a 21-room abode over four storeys – has since been used as office and storage space.
  • (6) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
  • (7) A Greater Manchester police spokesman said: "Gregory Horan, 26, of no fixed abode, has been charged with being drunk in an aircraft and Lee Patrick Byrne, 28, from Dublin, Republic of Ireland, has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence."
  • (8) Homeless people in London residing in bed and breakfast and private sector leased accommodation, residing in hostels, and of no fixed abode.
  • (9) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
  • (10) But on Thursday the president would have found men shooting hoops near his future abode.
  • (11) On the contrary, the extracts of animals dwelling in the sea of Okhotsk possess the activating effect, except for sponges of genera Haliclona whose sample extracts display a significant activating effect independently of their place of abode.
  • (12) "In a semi-permanent-looking abode between two walls and a vending machine was Heidi Launne, a Swedish industrial design student at Aston University in Birmingham, who had been due to take a Scandinavian airlines flight to Helsinki at 6pm on Saturday.
  • (13) To do so, they need to have a national insurance number, which can only be allocated to people with a fixed abode – difficult for Roma, who tend to move about even within their own countries.
  • (14) In his dissenting judgment, Lord Bingham declared as void and unlawful a 2004 order to declare, without the authority of parliament, that no person had the right of abode in the Chagos islands.
  • (15) We can see where people lived, the household structure of each abode, their ages, where they were born, whether they had any disabilities, their occupations and how many children the family had (again, we find that not everybody had lots of children living in a single room, and how many children you had could depend on where in the country you lived).
  • (16) Those of no fixed abode constituted only 0.3% of all new patients seen in one year.
  • (17) Oskar Pawlowicz, 30, of Mitcham, and Dawid Tychon, 29, of no fixed abode, both pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary.
  • (18) Except for this, the ice has been unusually quiet, and it is closed in tightly round the ship,” Nansen reports, “Since the last strong pressure we have probably 10 to 20 feet of ice packed in below us.” In his book Farthest North (Tandem Books, 1975) he writes: “The Fram is a warm, cosy abode.
  • (19) It is a huge loss to the family and a big loss for the wider community.” On the Masjid Al Aqsa mosque’s Facebook page, a picture of Akram was shared with the message: “We share not only the picture but also the pain and grief of his departure from this world to the eternal abode of bliss.” Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi tweeted: Yasmin Qureshi MP (@YasminQureshiMP) Saddened to hear that a young man from #Bolton was amongst those killed in tragic Saudi crane collapse.
  • (20) Naypyidaw, the grand but empty capital Myanmar’s generals built for themselves, means “abode of kings”, a hint at their aspirations.

House


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.
  • (n.) Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A firm, or commercial establishment.
  • (n.) A public house; an inn; a hotel.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
  • (n.) An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
  • (n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul.
  • (n.) The grave.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To drive to a shelter.
  • (v. t.) To admit to residence; to harbor.
  • (v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
  • (v. t.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.
  • (v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's the demented flipside of David Guetta bringing Euro house into the mainstream.
  • (2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (3) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (4) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
  • (5) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (6) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
  • (7) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (8) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (9) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (10) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
  • (11) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (12) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (13) Known as the Little House in the Garden, this temporary structure lasted over 50 years.
  • (14) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (15) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
  • (16) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (17) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
  • (18) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
  • (19) The measurements were carried out in rooms of houses in Southern Germany with radon activity concentrations in the range of 150-900 Bqm-3.
  • (20) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.