House vs Breed - What's the difference?

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House is a related term of breed.

As a proper noun house

is (us) the house of representatives, "the house".

As a verb breed is

to produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

As a noun breed is

all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

house

English

Noun

(houses)

(lb) Human habitation.

#(senseid) A structure serving as an abode of human beings.

#*: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,.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path

#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).

#A public house, an inn, or the management of such.

#(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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#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.

#A printer's or publishing company.

#A place of gambling; a casino.

#A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

(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.

#(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.

#(lb) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

#Lotto; bingo.

#(senseid) House music.

# An aggregate of characteristics of a house.

# (lb) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

Synonyms

* (establishment) shop * (company or organisation) shop

Derived terms

* acid house * alehouse * auction house * basket house * birdhouse * boathouse * bring the house down * chapter house * country house * doghouse * doll's house * dosshouse * frame house * flophouse * full house * get on like a house on fire * glasshouse * Greek house * greenhouse * grow house * guesthouse, guest house * house arrest * houseboat * housebreaker * housecoat * house detective * household * householder * housekeeper * housekeeping * house leader * house lights * housemaid * house music * house of worship * houseplant * house poor * house-train * house warming * housewife * house wine * housework * housy-housy * lighthouse * lower house * meetinghouse, meeting house * on the house * outhouse * play house * playhouse * poorhouse * prisonhouse * public house * publishing house * put one's house in order * royal house * safe house * shophouse * storehouse * tiny house, 50 m2. * town house * tribal house * upper house * warehouse * wartime house * whorehouse * wirehouse

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Verb

(hous)

To keep within a structure or container.

The car is housed in the garage.

* Evelyn

House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.

To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.

* Sir Philip Sidney

Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

* Shakespeare

You shall not house with me.

(astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

* Dryden

Where Saturn houses .

To contain or cover mechanical parts.

(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

(Sandys)

(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

to house the upper spars

Synonyms

* (keep within a structure or container) store * (admit to residence) accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up * (contain or enclose mechanical parts) enclose

Statistics

* English heteronyms 1000 English basic words ----

breed

English

Alternative forms

* breede (archaic)

Verb

To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

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To give birth to; to be the native place of.

a pond breeds''' fish; a northern country '''breeds stout men

* Shakespeare

Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.

Of animals, to mate.

To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.

To arrange the mating of specific animals.

To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.

To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.

* Dryden

to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed

* Everett

born and bred on the verge of the wilderness

To yield or result in.

* Milton

Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

(obsolete) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.

To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up .

* Bishop Burnet

No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

* John Locke

His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.

To produce or obtain by any natural process.

* John Locke

Children would breed their teeth with less danger.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

* Shakespeare

Heavens rain grace / On that which breeds between them.

Synonyms

* (take care of in infancy and through childhood) raise, bring up, rear

Derived terms

* breeder * breeding * breed in the bone

Noun

(en noun)

All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

a breed of tulip

a breed of animal

A race or lineage.

(informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed .

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs ----