What's the difference between house and madhouse?

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.

Madhouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ian Cruise, an independent councillor in Birmingham who resigned as a prison officer at the West Midlands jail in July, said it was an “absolute madhouse” and should be taken back from G4s control.
  • (2) EDM today has come a long way from the early days of house and techno, when sound was privileged over vision, an ethos enshrined in the title of the 1992 Madhouse compilation A Basement, a Red Light, and a Feeling .
  • (3) Four hours from the Zurich madhouse, Uefa’s base on the shores of Lake Geneva in Nyon hums with calm purpose.
  • (4) Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, the former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman who is an adviser to Cable, described the proposal as the "economics of the madhouse".
  • (5) Otherwise your capitalism degrades into a low-trust, low-investment, low-innovation madhouse in which all shareholders think about is the next deal and next chance to exit – and where wage inequalities grow ever higher.
  • (6) But turn the page and there's Dillon's editor, Bill Bradshaw, wailing that "Fabio Capello today has to show he is worth his £6m salary by bringing some sanity to the Rustenberg madhouse."
  • (7) The saga has a history of celebrating tough females, and you’d have to be truly crazy to survive as a lone woman in the saga’s dusty post-apocalyptic madhouse.
  • (8) Particularly in a week like this, to travel from London to Berlin feels like leaving the madhouse and arriving in a world inhabited by rational beings once more.
  • (9) Lots of bodies haven’t been picked up because the separatists are shooting.” “It was a madhouse.
  • (10) In those cities, 0.3334 of them studied Medicine and 0.6444 of them lived there; 0.6 of them worked in hospitals and 0.2222 of them worked in madhouses.
  • (11) He said he had also lost his Kremlin pass and described what was happening in Moscow as 'a madhouse'.
  • (12) 'I'm not staying in this madhouse' Rampling was born in Essex, the daughter of a colonel and a painter.
  • (13) Osborne dubbed Darling's plans "a tax rise on almost all jobs", and "the economics of the madhouse", claiming it was a mistake to increase the tax burden in this way.
  • (14) That would be frankly the economics of the madhouse.
  • (15) But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
  • (16) Out on the ramp, where, with the "the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts ", the selections are reversed as reunions, the narrative voice commiserates with the protagonist.
  • (17) He also started visiting his local bar, the Luda Kuca (“Madhouse”), a smoke-filled, rough-edged place that appealed to a shifting crowd of impoverished war veterans, Bosnian Serbs and Montenegrins.
  • (18) In addition, as President of the "Junta de Beneficencia de Santiago" he supervised and updated hospital care management and founded several health institutions such as the Madhouse, the Orphan House and the School of Midwifery.
  • (19) Wherever he was, whether sectioned in the madhouse, or home, sprawled on his red-velvet chaise longue, amid a blizzard of books, ash and paper, he was one of life's great learners, a modest student of the world he wrote about with such exhilarating power.
  • (20) That was because of the strange case of John Clare's copyright, whereby a living editor claimed the copyright of a poet who had died in a madhouse a century and a half ago.