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a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
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a household.
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(often initial capital letter) a family, including ancestors and descendants: the great houses of France; the House of Hapsburg.
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a building for any purpose: a house of worship.
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a theater, concert hall, or auditorium: a vaudeville house.
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the audience of a theater or the like.
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a place of shelter for an animal, bird, etc.
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the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets.
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(initial capital letter) the body itself, esp. of a bicameral legislature: the House of Representatives.
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a quorum of such a body.
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(often initial capital letter) a commercial establishment; business firm: the House of Rothschild; a publishing house.
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a gambling casino.
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the management of a commercial establishment or of a gambling casino: rules of the house.
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an advisory or deliberative group, esp. in church or college affairs.
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a college in an English-type university.
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a residential hall in a college or school; dormitory.
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the members or residents of any such residential hall.
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Informal. a brothel; whorehouse.
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British. a variety of lotto or bingo played with paper and pencil, esp. by soldiers as a gambling game.
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Also called parish.Curling. the area enclosed by a circle 12 or 14 ft. (3.7 or 4.2 m) in diameter at each end of the rink, having the tee in the center.
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Nautical. any enclosed shelter above the weather deck of a vessel: bridge house; deck house.
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Astrology. one of the 12 divisions of the celestial sphere, numbered counterclockwise from the point of the eastern horizon.
–verb (used with object)
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to put or receive into a house, dwelling, or living quarters: More than 200 students were housed in the dormitory.
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to give shelter to; harbor; lodge: to house flood victims in schools.
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to provide with a place to work, study, or the like: This building houses our executive staff.
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to provide storage space for; be a receptacle for or repository of: The library houses 600,000 books.
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to remove from exposure; put in a safe place.
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al.
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to stow securely.
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to lower (an upper mast) and make secure, as alongside the lower mast.
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to heave (an anchor) home.
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Carpentry.
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to fit the end or edge of (a board or the like) into a notch, hole, or groove.
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to form (a joint) between two pieces of wood by fitting the end or edge of one into a dado of the other.
–verb (used without object)
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to take shelter; dwell.
–adjective
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of, pertaining to, or noting a house.
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for or suitable for a house: house paint.
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of or being a product made by or for a specific retailer and often sold under the store's own label: You'll save money on the rad
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io if you buy the house brand.
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served by a restaurant as its customary brand: the house wine.
—Idioms
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bring down the house, to call forth vigorous applause from an audience; be highly successful: The children's performances brought down the house.
to fill a theater with many people admitted on free passes; paper the house.
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to arrange or space the seating of patrons in such a way as to make an audience appear larger or a theater or nightclub more crowded than it actually is.
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keep house, to maintain a home; manage a household.
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like a house on fire or afire, very quickly; with energy or enthusiasm: The new product took off like a house on fire.
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on the house, as a gift from the management; free: Tonight the drinks are on the house.
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put or set one's house in order,
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to settle one's affairs.
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to improve one's behavior or correct one's faults: It is easy to criticize others, but it would be better to put one's own house in order first.
that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
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a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.
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a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor.
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one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor.
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a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor.
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the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel.
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a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean.
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the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
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the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor.
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the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.: There are only two salesclerks on the floor.
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the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
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the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.
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Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
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Nautical.
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the bottom of a hull.
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any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons.
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the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.
–verb (used with object)
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to cover or furnish with a floor.
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to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow.
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to overwhelm; defeat.
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to confound or puzzle; nonplus: I was floored by the problem.
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Also, floorboard.to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.
—Idioms
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mop or wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat: He expected to mop the floor with his opponents.
a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
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a design or scheme of arrangement: an elaborate plan for seating guests.
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a specific project or definite purpose: plans for the future.
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Also called plan view.a drawing made to scale to represent the top view or a horizontal section of a structure or a machine, as a floor layout of a building.
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a representation of a thing drawn on a plane, as a map or diagram: a plan of the dock area.
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(in perspective drawing) one of several planes in front of a represented object, and perpendicular to the line between the object and the eye.
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a formal program for specified benefits, needs, etc.: a pension plan.
–verb (used with object)
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to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for (any work, enterprise, or proceeding): to plan a new recreation center.
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to make plans for: to plan one's vacation.
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to draw or make a diagram or layout of, as a building.
–verb (used without object)
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to make plans: to plan ahead; to plan for one's retirement.
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