(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.
Tenement
Definition:
(n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
(n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
(n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
(n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
(2) They brought up Adelson and his three siblings in a tenement in a tough neighbourhood of the town of Dorchester.
(3) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
(4) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(5) When New York's population more than tripled between 1850 and 1900, the city responded by building dense and (by the period's standards) high, constructing cheap tenements within the city's heart.
(6) "One of the things that is really wonderful about Limelight is that it shows Chaplin returning to the London of his youth: the tenements and music halls that he knew.
(7) Some people like it, some don't Or maybe @curlyadamb has it down pat: Italians cooking pizzas in frying pans in their tenement ovens after leaving the old country...
(8) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
(9) Kathmandu, a city of 3 million, has expanded exponentially in recent years, with acre after acre of farmland covered by poor-quality cement tenements.
(10) The old tenements have been sandblasted, students are moving in, attracted by cheaper accommodation, and some private houses have been added to the mix.
(11) In those accounts – for the financial year ending March 2014 and filed to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – Adani Mining describes its principle activity as “the exploration and evaluation of coal mining tenements [permits] in Queensland Australia ... to identify commercially exploitable mineral reserves and resources for development and extraction”.
(12) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(13) Above Houlihans the chemist is a pink sandstone tenement where nearly every flat has its windows boarded with steel shutters and greying sun-bleached chipboard sheets.
(14) She is a former social worker who was brought up by a single parent in a tenement in Edinburgh.
(15) The colossal complex sits near the centre of the small town, as large as several office blocks placed end to end, its white and yellow steel edifice dwarfing the sandstone tenements of Barrow Island.
(16) Workers and their families were packed densely into unsanitary tenements.
(17) Clearly people can live like that, but frankly I thought that overcrowded tenements were something that Britain had left behind.
(18) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
(19) The rapidly expanding city of the 1920s housed its working classes either in these small rooftop rooms ( cuartos de azotea ), or in the more well-known vecindades , Mexico’s version of tenement buildings.
(20) When asked if he still stood to make a "bucket load of money" from the Mount Penny mining tenement, Obeid replied: "That's my family's entitlement.