(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.
Kip
Definition:
(n.) The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that different neurochemical mechanisms can support LTP on the one hand, and kindling and KIP on the other.
(2) The kinetic parameters for the enzyme were determined at pH 7.4 and 37 degrees C, yielding the following values (microM): Ka, 72; Kia, 11; Kb, 110; Kp, 1600; Kip, 7100; Kq, 170; Kiq, 1100, where a = NADH, b = oxalacetate, p = malate, and q = NAD+.
(3) The drinks were still flowing at the Better Together victory party at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow in the early hours of 19 September when Alistair Darling woke from a brief kip in his room a few floors above the celebration.
(4) Prepare yourself: there will be unrelated questions “It is frustrating to get questions that are unrelated to the job at hand, ” says Kipping-Ruane, who was once asked by a potential employers if he had ever killed anyone.
(5) Comparison of the association rate constants and the normal plasma concentrations of the four inhibitors demonstrates that KIP is ten-times as effective as alpha 2-MG and other two inhibitors are marginally effective in the inhibition of kallikrein.
(6) Absent the federal subsidies, those consumers would face premiums that are 100% to 300% higher,” says Kip Piper , expert on ACA and health insurance exchanges.
(7) However Kip Meek, the Digital Britain consultant charged with doing a deal with the five mobile phone networks in order to push 3G mobile broadband services beyond the 80% of the population already reached, has not yet managed to get a consensus.
(8) The panel will also feature the Universal Music chief executive, Lucian Grainge, who is also part of culture secretary Andy Burnham's creative industries panel; Carphone Warehouse co-founder Charles Dunstone; and Kip Meek, a board member of Ingenious and the Broadband Stakeholder Group, as well as a former Ofcom senior executive.
(9) The payout handed to Sugar, who was appointed at the behest of shareholder Richard Desmond in March 2011 as the venture missed its launch deadlines, dwarfs that of his predecessor Kip Meek, who was paid £97,000 for less than eight months in the role of chairman.
(10) Kip Meek, the former chief policy partner at Ofcom, is understood to be poised to be appointed as the chairman of Project Canvas, the BBC-backed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview and Freesat.
(11) YouView had targeted June for the launch but for months its chairman, Kip Meek, who is expected to be replaced by Sugar in an announcement next week, has been conceding the possibility of delays.
(12) From kinetic analysis on the initial stage of the fibrinogen-fibrin conversion catalyzed by thrombin, inhibition constants, Kip, of heparin and heparin analogues were obtained by the turbidimetrical method.
(13) The Inhibitory spectrum of KIP was different from the spectrum of each protease inhibitor in human plasma, but was similar to the spectrum of contrapsin in mouse plasma.
(14) On Sunday, the birthday celebrations go public, with talks on cosmology by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, one of the discoverers of dark energy, and long-time Hawking collaborator Kip Thorne.
(15) KIP is a single chain protein and the apparent molecular weight is estimated to be 59,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(16) These results suggest that KIP is the major kallikrein inhibitor in guinea pig plasma and the proteinase inhibitory spectrum is unique to KIP in spite of the molecular similarity to alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor.
(17) Outside Gucci, a driver kipped yesterday in a black seven-series Mercedes; nearby someone had parked their giant Hummer jeep on the pavement.
(18) Moreover, parents would agree to anything to get those 10-hour-long kips, including pretending to have enhanced attention spans.
(19) In the fibrinogen and thrombin system, heparin and its analogues were observed to act as noncompetitive inhibitors at high concentrations, where the inhibition constant of heparin was 3.91 X 10(-6) M. At low concentrations below 10(-5) M, both heparin and dextran sulphate acted as hyperbolic competitive inhibitors of thrombin, and Kip of heparin was 1.07 X 10(-8) M, which was measured at heparin concentrations below ca.
(20) Ingenious Consulting is chaired by former Ofcom executive board member Kip Meek, who is also a director of the RadioCentre.