House vs Kip - 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.
The untanned of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
A bundle or set of such hides.
(obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
The leather made from such hide; kip leather .
(informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
(informal, chiefly UK) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
(informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
(informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
(informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
(rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
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* 2003 , Gilbert Buchanan, Malco Polia - Traveller, Warrior ,
* 2010 , Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue ,
A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
As nouns the difference between house and kip
is that house is (senseid) a structure serving as an abode of human beings while kip is the untanned of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat or kip can be (informal|chiefly uk) a place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed or kip can be a unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (444822 kilonewtons or 444822 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound or kip can be the unit of currency in laos, divided into 100 att, symbol , abbreviation lak or kip can be (gymnastics) a basic skill or maneuver in used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position in its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.As verbs the difference between house and kip
is that house is to keep within a structure or container while kip is (informal|chiefly uk) to sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.house
English
Noun
(houses)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
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Synonyms
* (establishment) shop * (company or organisation) shopDerived 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 * wirehouseExternal links
* (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) enclosekip
English
Etymology 1
1325–75, (etyl) kipp, from (etyl) kip, from (etyl)Alternative forms
* kipp, kippe, kyppeNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
1760–70, probably related to (etyl) . From the same distant Germanic root as (cove).Noun
(en noun)- I’m just going for my afternoon kip .
Verb
(kipp)- Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.
Synonyms
* crash (US)Etymology 3
1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from (kilo) + (pound).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
1950–55, from (etyl) . (Lao kip)Etymology 5
Unknown. Some senses maybe related to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 208,
- Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip'. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the ' kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.
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- Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads'' or ''tails'' finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden ''kip .
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- Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.
