House vs Chamber - What's the difference?
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(lb) Human habitation.
#(senseid) A structure serving as an abode of human beings.
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#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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#(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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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.
A room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room.
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An enclosed space.
(firearms) The portion of the weapon that holds the ammunition round immediately prior to (and during initiation of) its discharge; each of the cylindrical compartments of a revolver that can hold a bullet
One of the legislative bodies in a government where multiple such bodies exist, or a single such body in comparison to others.
A law office in a building housing several such offices, typically the office of a barrister in the United Kingdom or in the imagination of an African scammer.
(dated, in the plural) Apartments in a lodging house.
* Thackeray
(obsolete) A chamber pot.
(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
To enclose in a room.
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
* 1893 , Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
(obsolete) To be lascivious.
In obsolete terms the difference between house and chamber
is that house is to deposit and cover, as in the grave while chamber is to be lascivious.As nouns the difference between house and chamber
is that house is Human habitation.chamber is a room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room.As verbs the difference between house and chamber
is that house is to keep within a structure or container while chamber is to enclose in a room.As a proper noun House
is the House of Representatives, "the House".house
English
Noun
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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
Synonyms
* (keep within a structure or container) store * (admit to residence) accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up * (contain or enclose mechanical parts) enclosechamber
English
(wikipedia chamber)Alternative forms
* chambre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
- Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
- As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- the chamber''' of a canal lock; the '''chamber''' of a furnace; the '''chamber of the eye
- A ''test chamber'' is typically a closable case where devices under test are placed.
- Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
- The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber .
- a bachelor's life in chambers
Derived terms
* torture chamberVerb
(en verb)- She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- I chambered with Alexander Preston.
- The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- The rifle was originally chambered for 9MM, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.