House Definition–noun | 1. | a building in which people live; residence for human beings. |
| 3. | (often initial capital letter ) a family, including ancest
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ors and descendants: the great houses of France; the House of Hapsburg. |
| 4. | a building for any purpose: a house of worship. |
| 5. | a theater, concert hall, or auditorium: a vaudeville house. |
| 6. | the audience of a theater or the like. |
| 7. | a place of shelter for an animal, bird, etc. |
| 8. | the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets. |
| 9. | (initial capital letter) the body itself, esp. of a bicameral legislature: the House of Representatives. |
| 10. | a quorum of such a body. |
| 11. | (often initial capital letter) a commercial establishment; business firm: the House of Rothschild; a publishing house. |
| 13. | the management of a commercial establishment or of a gambling casino: rules of the house. |
| 14. | an advisory or deliberative group, esp. in church or college affairs. |
| 15. | a college in an English-type university. |
| 16. | a residential hall in a college or school; dormitory. |
| 17. | the members or residents of any such residential hall. |
| 18. | Informal. a brothel; whorehouse. |
| 19. | British. a variety of lotto or bingo played with paper and pencil, esp. by soldiers as a gambling game. |
| 20. | 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. |
| 21. | Nautical. any enclosed shelter above the weather deck of a vessel: bridge house; deck house. |
| 22. | Astrology. one of the 12 divisions of the celestial sphere, numbered counterclockwise from the point of the eastern horizon. |
–verb (used with object) | 23. | to put or receive into a house, dwelli
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ng, or living quarters: More than 200 students were housed in the dormitory. |
| 24. | to give shelter to; harbor; lodge: to house flood victims in schools. |
| 25. | to provide with a place to work, study, or the like: This building houses our executive staff. |
| 26. | to provide storage space for; be a receptacle for or repository of: The library houses 600,000 books. |
| 27. | to remove from exposure; put in a safe place. |
| 28. | Nautical.
| b. | to lower (an upper mast) and make secure, as alongside the lower mast. |
| c. | to heave (an anchor) home. |
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| 29. | Carpentry. | a. | to fi
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t the end or edge of (a board or the like) into a notch, hole, or groove. |
| b. | to form (a joint) between two pieces of wood by fitting the end or edge of one into a dado of the other. |
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–verb (used without object) | 30. | to take shelter; dwell. |
–adjective | 31. | of, pertaining to, or noting a house. |
| 32. | for or suitable for a house: house paint. |
| 33. | 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 radio if you buy the house brand. |
| 34. | served by a restaurant as its customary brand: the house wine. |
—Idioms| 35. | bring down the house, to call forth vigorous applause from an audience; be highly successful: The children's performances brought down the house. |
| 36. | clean house. clean (def. 48). |
| 37. | dress the house, Theater. | a. | to fill a theater with many people admitted on free passes; paper the house. |
| b. | 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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| 38. | keep house, to maintain a home; manage a household. |
| 39. | like a house on fire or afire, very quickly; with energy or enthusiasm: The new product took off like a house on fire. |
| 40. | on the house, as a gift from the management; free: Tonight the drinks are on the house. |
| 41. | put or set one's house in order, | a. | to settle one's affairs. |
| b. | 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. |
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Floor Definition–noun | 1. | that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks. |
| 2. | 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. |
| 3. | a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor. |
| 4. | one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor. |
| 5. | a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor. |
| 6. | the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel. |
| 7. | a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean. |
| 8. | the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak. |
| 9. | the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor. |
| 10. | 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. |
| 11. | the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc. |
| 12. | the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor. |
| 13. | Mining. an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat. |
| 14. | Nautical.
| b. | 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. |
| c. | the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel. |
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–verb (used with object) | 15. | to cover or furnish with a floor. |
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| 16. | to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow. |
| 18. | to confound or puzzle; nonplus: I was floored by the problem. |
| 19. | 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| 20. | mop or wipe the floor with, Informal. to overwhelm completely; defeat: He expected to mop the floor with his opponents. |
| 21. | take the floor, to arise to address a meeting. |
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Plan Definition–noun | 1. | a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans. |
| 2. | a design or scheme of arrangement: an elaborate plan for seating guests. |
| 3. | a specific project or definite purpose: plans for the future. |
| 4. | 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. |
| 5. | a representation of a thing drawn on a plane, as a map or diagram: a plan of the dock area. |
| 6. | (in perspective drawing) one of several planes in front of a represented object, and perpendicular to the line between the object and the eye. |
| 7. | a formal program for specified benefits, needs, etc.: a pension plan. |
–verb (used with object) | 8. | to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for (any work, enterprise, or proceeding): to plan a new recreation center. |
| 9. | to make plans for: to plan one's vacation. |
| 10. | to draw or make a diagram or layout of, as a building. |
–verb (used without object) | 11. | to make plans: to plan ahead; to plan for one's retirement. |
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