House vs Style - 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 manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
* Chesterfield
* C. Middleton
* I. Disraeli
* Sir J. Reynolds
flair; grace; fashionable skill
(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
* Burke
(nonstandard) A stylus.
(obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
A long, slender, bristle-like process.
The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
To create or give a style, fashion or image.
To call or give a name or title.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 10
As a proper noun house
is (us) the house of representatives, "the house".As a verb style is
.As an adjective style is
elegant, stylish.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) enclosestyle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Style is the dress of thoughts.
- the usual style of dedications
- It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
- The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
- As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
- the style of Majesty
- one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
- (Dryden)
- the anal styles of insects
- applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
- Cascading Style Sheets
Derived terms
* stylish * stylist * hairstyle * style guide * style manualSee also
* substanceVerb
(styl)- Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled (SIC) Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.