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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; 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. |
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–verb (used without object)
| 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 o
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ther 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 everyone 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. |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
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| 31. | write home about, to comment especially on; remark on: The town was nothing
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School Definition–noun | 1. | an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school. |
| 2. | an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. |
| 3. | a college
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or university. |
| 4. | a re
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gular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school. |
| 5. | a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school. |
| 6. | the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school. |
| 7. | one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school. |
| 8. | a building housing a school. |
| 9. | the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium. |
| 10. | a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture. |
| 11. | a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school. |
| 12. | any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything. |
| 13. | the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy. |
| 14. | Art. | a. | a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. |
| b. | the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school. |
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| 15. | any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. |
| 16. | Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like. |
| 17. | Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking. |
| 18. | schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university. |
| 19. | Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. |
–adjective | 20. | of or connected with a school or schools. |
| 21. | Obsolete. of the schoolmen. |
–verb (used with object) | 22. | to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train. |
| 23. | Archaic. to reprimand. |
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