(n.) One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
(n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
(n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
(n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.
(n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
(n.) The home base; he started for home.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
(a.) Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
(adv.) To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
(adv.) Close; closely.
(adv.) To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
Example Sentences:
(1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(2) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(5) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(6) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(7) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(9) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(10) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
(11) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
(12) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
(13) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(14) 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.
(15) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(16) 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.
(17) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(18) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(19) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(20) He is shadow home secretary and will have to defend himself.
Homer
Definition:
(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
(n.) See Hoemother.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(2) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(3) The agency’s current chief executive, Lin Homer, is due to face the Commons public accounts committee, chaired by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge.
(4) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(5) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.
(6) Young Commons reared and trained with Homers of the same age differed behaviorally from the Homers in a variety of ways and many fewer returned home from training and test releases, but the season for the fewer returns appeared to be more concerned with social behavior than with orientation capability.
(7) In Game Four two home runs from Jhonny Peralta and a homer apiece from Triple Crown-winner Cabrera and Austin Jackson led the annihilation.
(8) The tumor demonstrated Homer Wright rosettes, was positive for neuron-specific enolase and ultrastructurally revealed neurosecretory granules.
(9) And why did George Osborne and the Treasury sign a deal with the Swiss in 2012 which prevents the UK from actively obtaining similar information in the future?” One member of the Public Accounts Committee, said Homer should return to the committee to explain herself in light of the comments from the French finance minister.
(10) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(11) Modern knowledge of renal physiology, kidney disease, and the body fluids in American medicine was established largely by Donald D. Van Slyke, Thomas Addis, John P. Peters, Homer W. Smith, and Alfred Newton Richards.
(12) Homer and Shakespeare have this in common: neither is afraid of a catalogue, either in The Iliad or in the history plays.
(13) Keith Vaz , the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, which accused the former UKBA head, Lin Homer, of "catastrophic leadership failure" while she was in charge, congratulated May for "delivering the lethal injection" to the organisation.
(14) Homer himself is a collection of poets, one of many.
(15) It's also somewhat bizarre that Domonic Brown , second in the NL in homers, was passed over, not to mention Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh's power threat.
(16) This paper looked at Orten and Soll's runaway typology and Homer's conceptualization of runaways as "running from" or "running to" something and expanded the context to include interactions with family and professionals.
(17) Lin Homer has been announced as the next chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
(18) David Cameron and Nick Clegg have both just stuck their feet in it, insulting the stay-at-homers and egging on the go-to-workers – but why bother to take sides?
(19) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(20) Now Pedro Alvarez, who is tied for the NL lead with 36 homers, is at the plate with a chance to add to the Bucs lead...