House vs Park - 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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, title= #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).
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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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# (lb) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
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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.
An area of land set aside for environment preservation and/or informal recreation.
# A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
#* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
# A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation
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# An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
# (US) A grassy basin surrounded by mountains.
An area used for serious organized purposes.
# (rfc-sense) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together.
# A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
# An area zoned for a particular (industrial or technological) purpose.
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, title= # (soccer) A pitch; the area on which a match is played.
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(Australia, NZ) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
* 2003 , “Johnny”, Melbourne Blackout'', in Sleazegrinder (editor), ''Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll?s Frontline ,
* 2010 , Sandy Curtis, Dangerous Deception , Clan Destine Press, Australia,
* 2011 , Antonia Magee, The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income! , John Wiley & Sons Australia,
To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
(informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
To bring together in a park, or compact body.
To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
(baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.
(slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.
(transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
(finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
(Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See )
As proper nouns the difference between house and park
is that house is (us) the house of representatives, "the house" while park is ) the third most common korean surname.house
English
Noun
(houses)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house , and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
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) enclosepark
English
Noun
(en noun)- While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park , very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.}}
- I roamed the streets and parks , as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…
Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool, passage=But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.}}
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- We got to the 9th Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro?s car right out the front.
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- Once they?d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn?t want to be delayed.
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- We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.
Antonyms
* (a piece of ground in or near a city) building, skyscraper, streetSynonyms
* (a piece of ground in or near a city) courtyard, garden, plazaDerived terms
* amusement park * ballpark * car park * national park * parkade * skatepark * theme park * tank parkReferences
* “Park” in James F. Dunnigan and Albert Nofi (1992), Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know , Harper, ISBN 978-0688112707, p 28. *Verb
(en verb)- You can park the car in front of the house.
- I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.
- Let's park that until next week's meeting.
- How are we parked , and bounded in a pale. — Shakespeare.
- He really parked that one.
- They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked .
- He came in and parked himself in our living room.
- Park your bags in the hall.
- We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.
