(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.
Youse
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) One girl with a Scouse accent sees me taking notes and says: "Oi, get up me dear… stop writing youse!"
(2) "I hope youse are not wanting a lift back up the road just now!"
(3) In fact, perhaps it would be easier if I wrote my thank-yous in HB pencil on exercise book pages …
(4) Just some eye contact, pleases and thank yous would restore my faith in human nature.
(5) Instead, she encourages them to make objects and pictures that are sent as thank-yous to key donors.
(6) A thousand thank yous," she added, helpfully translating herself.
(7) Oxfam followed up its Philippines Typhoon Appeal with 547,000 thank yous direct from the Philippines, including a short video of how donations had been spent, showing farmers replanting crops and families receiving health kits.
(8) Youse can all say whatever you like about me, from reading books and all that, but one thing I'm not is crazy.
(9) You were hounding my family so I took it out on yous."
(10) There’s that £15 we put on One Direction to win down t’drain innit?” He can’t be bothered reading a list of thank yous though 8.44pm GMT Key event It’s a big one!
(11) Me team's a belter, man The contestants have been broken up into teams and my team is very good That Nicola Sccchhhherzingerwhatsit is mingin' I do not think much of my rivals for the US X Factor judge's chair Youse are all gets, am gannin' yem for a Broon and Greggs I don't like Americans.
(12) Keep gannin' like that and youse'll be a star You're very good.
(13) You were hounding my family so I took it out on yous.
(14) It crossed over an inquiry by the investigation company Quest, commissioned in January 2006 by the Premier League itself, into alleged "bungs" – kickbacks to football managers from agents as thank-yous for signing their players.
(15) Tim pulls out a mobile phone to read out his list of thank yous.
(16) Youse are all f***ing idiots" - buttering up the press after criticism of Juan Veron in 2002.
(17) When it was put to him that he was a coward turning himself in, he said: "Cos youse couldn't fuckin' find me, could youse?"
(18) I totted it up in my head: how long listening to the automatic options, the bland background music, the advisers telling me they hadn't a clue, the sorreees, the no problems, the we'll-get-someone-to-get-back-to-yous: three hours?