Concern vs House - What's the difference?
concern | house | Synonyms |
That which affects one's welfare or happiness.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
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, title=The Dust of Conflict, chapter=22 A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
* 2001 November 18, "
(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)
(label) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
*(Bible), (w) xxviii. 31
*:Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
*(James Fenimore Cooper) (1789-1851)
*:ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned , welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
(label) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
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*(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
*:They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.
(label) To make somebody worried.
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(lb) Human habitation.
#(senseid) A structure serving as an abode of human beings.
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#*:The big houses , and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,.
#*, chapter=1
, title= #An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
#A building used by people for something other than a main residence (typically with qualifying word).
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#A public house, an inn, or the management of such.
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#(senseid) A place of public entertainment, especially (without qualifying word) a theatre; also the audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
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, chapter=2 #A brothel.
#(lb) A place of business; a company or organisation.
#(lb) The building where a deliberative assembly meets; hence, the assembly itself, forming a component of a (national or state) legislature.
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#A printer's or publishing company.
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#A place of gambling; a casino.
#A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
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(lb) Extended senses.
#(lb) Somewhere something metaphorically resides; a place of rest or repose.
#*1598 , (Ben Jonson), (Every Man in His Humour)
#*:Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
#*1815 , (Walter Scott), (The Lord of the Isles)
#*:Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death .
#The people who live in the same house; a household.
#*(Bible), (w) x.2:
#*:one that feared God with all his house
#A dynasty, a familial descendance; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
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#(lb) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
#*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p.313:
#*:Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.
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#(lb) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
#Lotto; bingo.
#(senseid) House music.
# An aggregate of characteristics of a house.
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# (lb) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
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To keep within a structure or container.
* Evelyn
To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
* Shakespeare
(astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
* Dryden
To contain or cover mechanical parts.
(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
Concern is a synonym of house.
As a noun concern
is that which affects one's welfare or happiness.As a verb concern
is (label) to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.As a proper noun house is
(us) the house of representatives, "the house".concern
English
Noun
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.}}
citation, passage=Appleby
What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):
- Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.
- At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .
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* *Verb
(en verb)George Goodchild
Derived terms
* concernablehouse
English
Noun
(houses)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house , and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
Synonyms
* (establishment) shop * (company or organisation) shopDerived terms
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* (house) * *Verb
(hous)- The car is housed in the garage.
- House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
- Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
- You shall not house with me.
- Where Saturn houses .
- (Shakespeare)
- (Sandys)
- to house the upper spars