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Domestic vs Dome - What's the difference?

domestic | dome |

As nouns the difference between domestic and dome

is that domestic is a house servant; a maid; a household worker while dome is .

As an adjective domestic

is of or relating to the home.

domestic

English

(wikipedia domestic)

Alternative forms

* domestick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the home.
  • * 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
    • “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
  • Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
  • (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
  • * 1890 , US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
    • It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
  • Internal to a specific country.
  • * 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
    • The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

    Synonyms

    * (of or relating to the home) bourgeois, civilized, comfortable * (kept by someone) domesticated

    Antonyms

    * (of or relating to the home) adventurous, social * (local) foreign * (kept by someone) wild, feral

    Derived terms

    * domestic cat * domestic hot water * domestic violence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
  • * Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
  • A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
  • * 2005:' Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, ''Domestic Violence in Whatcom County'' (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.

    • Related terms

    * domesticate * domesticated * domestication * domesticity

    Anagrams

    * ----

    dome

    English

    (wikipedia dome)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.
  • Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
    • a cake dome
  • (slang) head (including the meaning 'oral sex')
  • * Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome . - , "Right Said Fred"
  • * I got 5 Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome . - Ludacris
  • * Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome -- Ying Yang Twins, "Georgia Dome"
  • (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Approach the dome , the social banquet share.
  • Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  • (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

    • Derived terms

    * chrome dome

    Anagrams

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