Home vs Site - What's the difference?
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(lb) A dwelling.
#One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
#* (William Tyndale), , xx, 10:
#*:And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home .
#*1808 , (John Dryden), (Walter Scott) (editor), The Works of John Dryden :
#*:Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
#*1822 , (John Howard Payne), :
#*:Home'! '''home'''! sweet, sweet '''home'''! / There’s no place like '''home''', there’s no place like ' home .
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#*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
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#*:Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes , burying victims under rubble and sludge.
#The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
#*2004', Jean Harrison, '''''Home :
#*:The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
#The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
#*1837 , (George Gordon Byron),
#*:He enter'd in the house—his home' no more, / For without hearts there is no ' home ;
#A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
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#(lb) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
#*1769 , King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, , xii, 5:
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One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
*1863', (Nathaniel Hawthorne), ''
*:Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home .
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*:So this was my future home , I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1980 , (Peter Allen), song, (I Still Call Australia Home) :
*:I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home .
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
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*1706', (Matthew Prior), ''An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ?ucce?s of Her Maje?ty's Arms, 1706'', as republished in '''1795 , Robert Anderson (editor), ''The Works of the British Poets :
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*1849 , (Alfred Tennyson), :
*:Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
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*:Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
(lb) A focus point.
# The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
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#(lb) Home plate.
#(lb) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
#(lb) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
Shortened form of homeboy .
*2008 , (Breaking Bad)'', ''Cancer Man :
*:Jesse Pinkman: Hey, homes . I'm joking! OK? I'm totally joking!
(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
* 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist :
Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
To one’s home or country.
* 1863 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne),
Close; closely.
* 1625 , (Francis Bacon), dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral ,
* 1718 , (Robert South), Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, And upon ?everal Occasions ,
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare) The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice , Act 5, Scene 1,
In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
(UK, soccer) Into the goal.
* 2004 ,
(internet) To the home page.
(obsolete) Sorrow, grief.
* a1307 , , Chronicle'', read in Thomas Hearne, ''Peter Langtoft's Chronicle'' (1725) as reprinted, apparently in facsimile, in ''The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. Volume 3, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, Volume I , Samuel Bagster (1810)
The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
* 1613 , Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, ''A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby,
* 1705 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: being an essay towards the natural history of England. The Second Edition with Large Additions and Corections: Also a Short Account of the Author, &c. , Charles Brome & John Nicholson,
* 1785 , Henry Morris, Surgical diseases of the kidney , Lea Brothers and Co,
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* 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936,
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
* 1716 , Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament, attempted in verse: And adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures , John Hooke,
* 1716 , John Mortimer, Th. Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a...[full title extends to 70 words]...The Second Volume...The Fourth Edition, with Additions , R. Robinson, and G. Mortlock,
* 2006 , Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, Warren Bird, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations , Zondervan, ISBN 0310270154,
The posture or position of a thing.
* 1709 , A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers'' read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, ''The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words] , A. and J. Churchill,
* 1724 , John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities: containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, according to the Sense of the Gentiles...[full title extends to over 98 words] , W. Taylor,
:* Maintain site setbacks as far as possible from roadways and other routes providing rapid public access.
A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
* 1982 , Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471869244,
* 1991 , V. Yodaiken, K. Ramamritham, Verification of a Reliable Net Protocol'', read in J. (Jan) Vytopil (editor), ''Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Second International Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 1992: Proceedings , Springer, ISBN 0387550925,
* 2006 , Keith J. Dreyer, Pacs: A Guide to the Digital Revolution , Springer, ISBN 0387260102,
A website.
* 1986 , Penguin Putnam Inc. Online, advertisement inside back cover of Howard Pyle The Story of King Arthur and His Knights , Signet Classic (1986), ISBN 0451524888,
* 1992 , Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre , Wordsworth Editions (1992), ISBN 1853260207,
* 2006 , Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook , O'Reilly, ISBN 0596101090,
(category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
A part of the body which has been operated on.
(architecture) To situate or place a building.
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* 1872 , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland , Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland,
* 2006 , Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean And Enduring Energy , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521861799,
* 2006 , The Scotsman (15 Dec 06) ,
As nouns the difference between home and site
is that home is (computing) a key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the internet to the top of the web page while site is site, location.As a proper noun home
is .home
English
Noun
(wikipedia home) (en noun)Don Juan:
Our Old '''Home: A Series of English Sketches :
Synonyms
* tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence * home baseDerived terms
* at home * at-homeness * bring home * broken home * drive home * funeral home * holiday home * homebuilder * home computer * Home Depot * home-grown * home help * home is where you hang your hat * home is where the heart is * home-made * home movie * homeowner * home ownership, homeownership * home plate * home run * Home Secretary * homesickness * home stretch * home teach * home team * motor home * nursing home * parental home (home)Verb
(hom)- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* home base * home brew * home economics * home farm * home front * home lot * home movie * home page * home port * home plate * home range * home rule * home ruler * home run * home stretch * home theater * home thrust * home videoAdverb
(-)- go home'', ''come home'', ''carry home .
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ?hewing with what high impudence ?ome among?t us defend sin, ...
- to drive a nail home'''''; ''to ram a cartridge '''home
- ... Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home : ...
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home .
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- Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
- Click here to go home .
Usage notes
* is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.Derived terms
* bring home * come home * haul home the sheets of a sail * till the cows come home * turn homesite
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) (compare Norwegian syt).Noun
(en noun)p. 5
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)p .8,
- A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site , and commodities, together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his companie vpon them, which was the first discouerie of them.
p. 315,
- However, I have taken care in the Map prefix'd to this Essay, to put a Mark for the Site of all Religious Houses, as well as ancient Ways and Fortifications....
p. 74,
- At the site of its termination in the bladder there was a diverticulum a few centimeters long.
citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site .}}
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
p. 84,
- EA critical first line of defense for entrance to more semi-public and semi-private areas of the site .
p. 192,
- The Town surrender'd soon, the Citadel,/Proud of its Site , do's their Assaults repel/Who e're their Idols cou'd, and them destroy,/For Life he shall the Gen'ral's place enjoy.
p. 208
- Having given you an Account of the Site , Form, and other Ornaments of a Garden: I shall proceed to what remains for the beautifying of it, which is Flowers.
p. 7,
- Our first site was the result of a building project that I am told was the first urban redevelopment initiated by a church since "white flight" began in the community surrounding our church.
p. 179,
- And if this be the Shape, and Site , then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.
p. 11,
- There is an Agreement ammong all their Authors regarding the Names of the said Times, and their Order, and concerning the Number of the Days in general, and of the Order of the Creation ; but concerning the Site of the Times, that is, in what Month, Day, and in what part of the Year they began, it is not so.
- 2006 , Ernest B Abbott , A Legal Guide to Homeland Security and Emergency Management for State and Local Governments , American Bar Association, ISBN 1590315936,
p. 84
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p. 433,
- The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...
p. 208,
- If the site' is forced to send a mesage against its will,...we make the '''site''' go to an error state, and remain there. Note that the ' site can fail for other reasons.
p. 298,
- The site with the DS3 connection can communicate back to our main network at 45 Mb/s.
p. 398,
- Every month you'll get an inside look at our upcoming books and new features on our site .
p. xxvi,
- Voice of the Shuttle: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-vict.html; general site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.
p. 248,
- When a new visitor arrives at your site', your web server should log the referring ' site , which is generally either a search engine or another web site.
Derived terms
* construction siteVerb
(sit)- The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
Mining Journal,
- A reassessment of the requirements of the gold mining industry, including uranium production, for the next few years has revealed the urgent necessity for the provision of additional power, and steps have been taken to site and plan a new station.
p. 24,
- For this reason it was found convenient to site pump rooms between groups of cargo tanks.
p. 22,
- It is difficult to gauge current public attitudes to nuclear power in industrialized countries because there have been few efforts to site and construct new plants in the last twenty years.
- Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.