What's the difference between outhouse and penthouse?

Outhouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The feet were missing, probably chopped off when a Victorian outhouse was built on the site of the long-lost Greyfriars church, missing the main skeleton by inches.
  • (2) Here in Exeter, we are not so much the northern powerhouse, as the bricked up outhouse, forgotten in the march of progress, but paying higher utility and rents than most, and getting sod all in return.
  • (3) "We ran and hid by the outhouse," Mrs Vishesella said, crouching as she had then beside a small white shed.
  • (4) It's a beautiful property, a walled tropical garden with four units for rent in outhouses and timber lodges.
  • (5) Outside at the back of the yard was a toilet in a small brick outhouse.
  • (6) I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse.
  • (7) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
  • (8) Landlords are getting rents for barely habitable properties, stables and outhouses.
  • (9) In the 1980s we pushed to have the county and the state help us with infrastructure because most all of the colonias were not on the grid; they didn’t have potable water; they had outhouses for the most part; the streets weren’t paved.
  • (10) In 1999, when a little-known prime minister, he famously pledged to "waste Chechen rebels in the outhouse".
  • (11) Bowker said that Joyce was “outraged on receiving his copies of the Review to see what cuts had been made”, including “chopping out Mr Bloom’s graphically-recorded visit to the outhouse in chapter four”.
  • (12) They had an outhouse in those days, they didn't have a toilet inside - and when the kids' hands went up 'cos they wanted to go, we didn't know what they were saying.
  • (13) Used judiciously, these precautions may prevent an unplanned tour of bathrooms and outhouses in foreign countries.
  • (14) Once protected by two giant walls, each more than 100m long and 4m high, the complex at Ness contained more than a dozen large temples – one measured almost 25m square – that were linked to outhouses and kitchens by carefully constructed stone pavements.

Penthouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.
  • (a.) Leaning; overhanging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While Hefner's pinups were dubbed Playmates, Guccione's centrefold models – whom he sometimes photographed himself – were named Penthouse Pets.
  • (2) Or Malcolm McDowell’s performance in the semi-pornographic 1979 film Caligula, produced by Penthouse supremo Bob Guccione .
  • (3) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
  • (4) Behind these slogans rises a concrete lift shaft that will soon service some of the most expensive penthouses in London.
  • (5) • Where to stay: Ipanema Penthouse (three-bedroom flats from $250 a night, including maid service).
  • (6) Although Penthouse published some quality writing by authors including Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, Guccione purposely went downmarket from Playboy with racier news stories, scandal coverage and tabloid headlines.
  • (7) Rob Tincknell, who runs the Battersea Power Station Development Company, set up by the Malaysian consortium, says the proposal – to fill the power station with shops, offices, luxury apartments and £30m-plus penthouses, and surround it with yet more apartment blocks, all designed by star architects Lord Foster and Frank Gehry – “was the last chance to save it”.
  • (8) But estate agency gossip, he said, suggested a Saudi prince was paying £7,000 a week for a penthouse on Park Lane .
  • (9) Last November, she joined St Edward where, as deputy project manager, she is responsible for the construction of 206 luxury flats and penthouses at the Strand development.
  • (10) In the penthouses, alarm clocks can be set to slowly open the skylights to the sound of soothing music, and artworks rotate to reveal TV screens.
  • (11) She posed naked in London's Reform Club for Penthouse magazine, and published a book of photographs under the title Rock Stars In Their Underpants, which was described by Andy Warhol as "the greatest work of art in the last decade".
  • (12) A penthouse one of London's landmark property developments is set to become the capital's most valuable apartment after changing hands for a reported £140m.
  • (13) He has a flat in Abbey Mill on his books a the moment – a three-bedroom penthouse for £265,000.
  • (14) Madoff was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse five years ago last month after his $20bn scam came to light.
  • (15) The clan of Gabon's late leader Omar Bongo and its current leader, his son Ali Bongo; the Congo-Brazzaville leader, Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his family, and President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea and his clan are accused of having assets worth €160m in France , from penthouses and villas to scores of bank accounts and luxury car fleets.
  • (16) Longtime resident Jeannie Saunders, whose home is a four-cube penthouse, says that Habitat will always be a “a community, where people have a feeling of friendship with neighbours, a special place to live”.
  • (17) His rides across Tehran carry him from penthouse to pavement, from the miserable teenage soldiers staking out a decadent party to the lonesome playboy adrift in his parents' apartment.
  • (18) Vitamin Water can cure cancer Rohan Oza went to Harrow School, but can now be found residing in his luxury hillside penthouse overlooking Los Angeles, thanks to the product that distills fear marketing into a single bottle of sugary water.
  • (19) Penthouses in the lavish Battersea Power Station redevelopment are expected to go on sale – most likely to overseas buyers – for £30m.
  • (20) Relaxing in his opulent Thames-side penthouse apartment, the only BBC presenter to be openly critical of the former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas in the wake of the "Sachsgate" affair is as garrulous as ever.