Home Definition–noun | 1. | a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household. | | 2. | the place in which one's domestic affections are centered. | | 3. | an institution for the homeless, sick, etc.: a nursing home. | | 4. | the dwelling place or retreat of an animal. | | 5. | the place or region where something is native or most common. | | 6. | any place of residence or refuge: a heavenly home. | | 7. | a person's native place or own country. | | 8. | (in games) the destination or goal. | | 9. | a principal base of operations or activities: The new stadium will be the home of the local football team. | | 11. | Lacrosse. one of three attack positions nearest the opposing goal. | –adjective | 12. | of, pertaining to, or connected with one's home or country;
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domestic: home products. | | 13. | principal or main: the corporation's home office. | | 14. | reaching the mark aimed at: a home thrust. | | 15. | Sports. played in a ball park, arena, or the like, that is or is assumed to be the center of operations of a team: The pitcher didn't lose a single home game all season. Compare away (def. 11). | –adverb | 16. | to, toward, or at home: to go home. | | 17. | deep; to the heart: The truth of the accusation struck home. | | 18. | to the mark or point aimed at: He drove the point home. | | 19. | Nautical. | a. | into the position desired; perfectly or to the greatest possible extent: sails sheeted home. | | b. | in the proper, stowed position: The anchor is home. | | c. | toward its vessel: to bring the anchor home. | | –verb (used without object) | 20. | to go or return home. | | 21. | (of guided missiles, aircraft, etc.) to proceed, esp. under control of an automatic aiming mechanism, toward a specified target, as a plane, missile, or location (often fol. by in on): The missile homed in on the target. | | 22. | to navigate toward a point by means of coordinates other than those given by altitudes. | | 23. | to have a home where specified; reside. | –verb (used with object) | 24. | to bring or send home. | | 25. | to provide with a home. | | 26. | to direct, esp. under control of an automatic aiming device, toward an airport, target, etc. | —Idioms | 27. | at home, | a. | in one's own house or place of residence. | | b. | in one's own town or country. | | c. | prepared or willing to receive social visits: Tell him I'm not at home. We are always at home to her. | | d. | in a situation familiar to one; at ease: She has a way of making ever
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yone feel at home. | | e. | well-informed; proficient: to be at home in the classics. | | f. | played in one's hometown or on one's own grounds: The Yankees played two games at home and one away. | | | 28. | bring home to, to make evident to; clarify or emphasize for: The irrevocability of her decision was brought home to her. | | 29. | home and dry, British Informal. having safely achieved one's goal. |
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| 30. | home free, | a. | assured of finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, etc.: If we can finish more than half the work today, we'll be home free. | | b. | certain to be successfully finished, accomplished, secured, etc.: With most of the voters supporting it, the new law is home free. | | | 31. | write home about, to comment especially on; remark on: The town was nothing to write home about. His cooking is really something to write home about. | | From Dictionary
Base Definition–noun | 1. | the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table. | | 2. | a fundamental principle or groundwork; foundation; basis: the base of needed reforms. | | 3. | the bottom layer or coating, as of makeup or paint. | | 4. | Architecture. | a. | the distinctively treated portion of a column or pier below the shaft or shafts. | | b. | the distinctively treated lowermost portion of any construction, as a monument, exterior wall, etc. | | | 5. | Botany, Zoology. | a. | the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment. | | b. | the point of attachment. | | | 6. | the principal element or ingredient of anything, considered as its fundamental part: face cream with a lanolin base; paint with a lead base. | | 7. | that from which a commencement, as of action or reckoning, is made; a starting point or point of departure. | | 8. | Baseball. | a. | any of the four corners of the diamond, esp. first, second, or third base. Compare home plate. | | b. | a square canvas sack containing sawdust or some other light material, for marking first, second, or third base. | | | 9. | a starting line or point for runners, racing cars, etc. | | 10. | (in hockey and other games) the goal. | | 11. | Military. | a. | a fortified or more or less protected area or place from which the operations of an army or an air force proceed. | | b. | a supply installation for a large military force. | | | 12.<
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/td> | Geometry. the line or surface forming the part of a figure that is most nearly horizontal or on which it is supposed to stand. | | 13. | Mathematics. | a. | the number that serves as a starting point for a logarithmic or other numerical system. | | b. | a collection of subsets of a topological space having the property that every open set in the given topology can be written as the union of sets of the collection. | | c. | a collection of neighborhoods of a point such that every neighborhood of the point contains one from the collection. | | d. | a collection of sets of a given filter such that every set in the filter is contained in some set in the collection. | | | 14. | Also called base line. Surveying. See under triangulation (def. 1). | | 15. | Painting. | b. | Also called carrier. inert matter, used in the preparation of lakes, onto which a coloring compound is precipitated. | | | 16. | Photography. a thin, flexible layer of cellulose triacetate or similar material that holds the light-sensitive film emulsion and other coatings, esp. on motion-picture film. | | 17. | Chemistry. | a. | a compound that reacts with an acid to form a salt, as ammonia, calc
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| b. | the hydroxide of a metal or of an electropositive element or group. | | c. | a group or molecule that takes up or accepts protons. | | d. | a molecule or ion containing an atom with a free pair of electrons that can be donated to an acid; an electron-pair donor. | | e. | any of the purine and pyrimidine compounds found in nucleic acids: the purines adenine and guanine and the pyrimidines cytosine, thymine, and uracil. | | | 18. | Grammar. the part of a complex word, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which derivational or inflectional affixes may be added, as want in unwanted or biolog- in biological. Compare root 1 (def. 11), stem 1 (def. 16). | | 19. | Linguistics. the component of a generative grammar containing the lexicon and phrase-structure rules that generate the deep structure of sentences. | | 20. | Electronics. | a. | an electrode or terminal on a transistor other than the emitter or collector electrodes or terminals. | | b. | the part of an incandescent lamp or electron tube that includes the terminals for making electrical connection to a circuit or power supply. | | | 21. | Stock Exchange. the level at which a security ceases a decline in price. | | 22. | Heraldry. the lower part of an escutcheon. | | 23. | bases, Armor. a tonlet formed of two shaped steel plates assembled side by side. | | 25. | in base, Heraldry. in the lower part of an escutcheon. | –adjective | 26. | serving as or forming a base: The walls will need a base coat and two finishing coats. | –verb (used with object) | 27. | to make or form a base or foundation for. | | 28. | to establish, as a fact or conclusion (usually fol. by on or upon): He based his assumption of her guilt on the fact that she had no alibi. | | 29. | to place or establish on a base or basis; ground; found (usually fol. by on or upon): Our plan is based on a rising economy. | | 30. | to station, place, or situate (usually fol. by at or on): He is based at Fort Benning. The squadr
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on is based on a carrier. | –verb (used without object) | 31. | to have a basis; be based (usually fol. by on or upon): Fluctuating prices usually base on a fickle public's demand. | | 32. | to have or maintain a base: I believe they had based on Greenland at one time. | —Idioms | 34. | off base, | a. | Baseball. not touching a base: The pitcher caught him off base and, after a quick throw, he was put out by the second baseman. | | b. | Informal. badly mistaken: The police were way off base when they tried to accuse her of the theft. | | | 35. | on base, Baseball. having reached a base or bases: Two men are on base. | | 36. | touch base with, to make contact with: They've touched base with every political group on campus. | | From Dictionary
Work Definition–noun | 1. | exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. | | 2. | something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking: The students finished their work in class. | | 3. | productive or operative activity. | | 4. | employment, as in some form of industry, esp. as a means of earning one's livelihood: to look for work. | | 5. | one's place of employment: Don't phone him at work. | | 6. | materials, things, etc., on which one is working or is to work. | | 7. | the result of exertion, labor, or activity; a deed or performance. | | 8. | a product of exertion, labor, or activity: musical works. | | 9. | an engineering structure, as a building or bridge. | | 10. | a building, wall, trench, or the like, constructed or made as a means of fortification. | | 11. | works, | a. | (used with a singular or plural verb ) a place or establishment for manufacturing (often used in combination): ironworks. | | b. | the working parts of a machine: the works of a watch. | | c. | Theology. righteous deeds. | | | 12. | Physics. force times the distance through which it acts; specifically, the transference of energy equal to the product of the component of a force that acts in the direction of the motion of the point of application of the force and the distance through which the point of application moves. | | 13. | the works, Informal. | a. | everything; all related items or matters:
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a hamburger with the works. | | b. | harsh or cruel treatment: to give someone the works. | | –adjective | 14. | of, for, or concerning work: work clothes. | –verb (used without object) | 17. | to be employed, esp. as a means of earning one's liveliho
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od: He hasn't worked for six weeks. | | 18. | to be in operation, as a machine. | | 19. | to act or operate effectively: The pump will not work. The plan works. | | 20. | to attain a specified condition, as by repeated movement: The nails worked loose. | | 21. | to have an effect or influence, as on a person or on the mind or feelings of a person. | | 22. | to move in agitation, as the features under strong emotion. | | 23. | to make way with effort or under stress: The ship works to windward. | | 24. | Nautical. to give slightly at the joints, as a vessel under strain at sea. | | 25. | Machinery. to move improperly, as from defective fitting of parts or from wear. | | 26. | to undergo treatment by labor in a given way: This dough works slowly. | | 27. | to ferment, as a liquid. | –verb (used with object) | 28. | to use or manage (an apparatus, contrivance, etc.): She can work many business machines. | | 29. | to bring about (any result) by or as by work or effort: to work a change. | | 30. | to manipulate or treat by labor: to work butter. | | 31. | to put into effective operation. | | 32. | to operat
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e (a mine, farm, etc.) for productive purposes: to work a coal mine. | | 33. | to carry on operations in (a district or region). | | 34. | to make, fashion, or execute by work. | | 35. | to achieve or win by work or effort: to work one's passage. | | 36. | to keep (a person, a horse, etc.) at work: She works her employees hard. | | 37. | to influence or persuade, esp. insidiously: to work other people to one's will. | | 38. | Informal. to exploit (someone or something) to one's advantage: See if you can work y
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our uncle for a new car. He worked his charm in landing a new job. | | 39. | to make or decorate by needlework or embroidery: She worked a needlepoint cushion. | | 40. | to cause fermentation in. | —Verb phrases | 41. | work in or into, | a. | to bring or put in; add, merge, or blend: The tailor worked in the patch skillfully. Work the cream into the hands until it is completely absorbed. | | b. | to arrange a time or employment for: The dentist was very busy, but said she would be able to work me in late in the afternoon. They worked him into the new operation. | | | 42. | work off, | a. | to lose or dispose of, as by exercise or labor: We decided to work off the effects of a heavy supper by walking for an hour. | | b. | to pay or fulfill by working: He worked off his debt by doing odd jobs. | | | 43. | work on or upon, to exercise influence on; persuade; affect: I'll work on her, and maybe she'll change her mind. | | 44. | work out, | a. | to bring about by work, effort, or action. | | b. | to solve, as a problem. | | c. | to arrive at by or as by calculation. | | d. | to pay (a debt) by working instead of paying money. | | e. | to exhaust, as a mine. | | h. | to amount to (a total or specified figure); add up (to): The total works out to 176. | | i. | to prove effective or successful: Their marriage just didn't work out. | | j. | to practice, exercise, or train, esp. in order to become proficient in an athletic sport: The boxers are working out at the gym tonight. | | | 45. | work over, | a. | to study or examine thoroughly: For my term paper I worked over 30 volumes of Roman history. | | b. | Informal. to beat unsparingly, esp. in order to obtain something or out of revenge: They threatened to work him over until he ta
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lked. | | | 46. | work through, to deal with successfully; come to terms with: to work through one's feelings of guilt. | | 47. | work up, | a. | to move or stir the feelings; excite. | | b. | to prepare; elaborate: Work up some plans. | | c. | to increase in efficiency or skill: He worked up his typing speed to 70 words a minute. | | | 48. | work up to, rise to a higher position; advance: He worked up to the presidency. | —Idioms | 49. | at work, | a. | working, as at one's job: He's at work on a new novel. | | b. | in action or operation: to see the machines at work. | | | 50. | gum up the works, Slang. to spoil something, as through blundering or stupidity: The surprise party was all arranged, but her little brother gummed up the works and told her. | | 51. | in the works, in preparation or being planned: A musical version of the book is in the works. | | 52. | make short work of, to finish or dispose of quickly: We made short work of the chocolate layer cake. | | 53. | out of work, unemployed; jobless: Many people in the area were out of work. | | 54. | shoot the works, Slang. to spend all one's resources: Let's shoot the works and order the crêpes suzette. | | From Dictionary
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