house
verb
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L23571 on Wikidata ↗noun
- structure built or serving as an abode of human beings
- legislative, deliberative, or consultative assembly
- electronic dance music genre, that originated in Chicago in the early 1980s
- division of the horoscope into 12 sectors, corresponding to the zodiac signs
- well known family with many descendents who can trace their ancestors on a family tree
- group of one or more people living in the same dwelling and sharing meals or living accommodation
- organisation that prints and distributes pressed goods or electronic media
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /haʊs/ / /haʊz/
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun house. * Also as an English surname, variant of Howes. * Also as a topographic English surname, from a derivative of Old English hyse (“place overgrown with water plants”), from hos (“bramble, thorn, sprout”). This may have also made its way into Hose, Huss. * As a German surname, calqued from the surname Haus.
- A particular chamber of political representation
“Prop. 50 proponents, including Newsom and Democrats in the state Legislature and in Congress, say the proposition is needed to counteract Texas’ recent redistricting efforts to give the GOP more House seats.”
- A particular chamber of political representation
- A particular chamber of political representation
- A particular chamber of political representation
- A placename:
- A placename:
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house.
“The incumbent and embattled Henyard lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary to Trustee Jason House by a landslide, with House winning nearly 90% of the vote.”
- Christ Church, Oxford.
noun
Etymology: Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
- House music.
“[…] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.”
“And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).
- To keep within a structure or container.
“The car is housed in the garage.”
“Houſe your choiceſt Carnations, or rather ſet them under a Pent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity of weather, they may yet enjoy the freer air at all other times.”
- To admit to residence; to harbor.
“Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots.”
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
“You shall not house with me.”
“The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members.”
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
“Where Saturn houses.”
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
“The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.”
- To drive to a shelter.
“Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere”
- To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
“Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre”
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
“to house the upper spars”
- To eat; especially, to scarf down.
“All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.”