Paper vs House - What's the difference?
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A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
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, title= A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
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(lb) Wallpaper.
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(lb) Wrapping paper.
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper'', ''term paper ), in particular one written for the Government.
A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, a workshop or a symposium).
A scholastic essay.
(lb) Money.
(lb) A university course.
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
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A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
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Made of paper.
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Insubstantial.
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To apply paper to.
To document; to memorialize.
To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
(lb) Human habitation.
#(senseid) A structure serving as an abode of human beings.
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#*: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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#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.
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#*:Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
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#*:Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death .
#The people who live in the same house; a household.
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#*: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.
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To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
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To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
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(astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
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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.
As a noun paper
is a sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.As an adjective paper
is made of paper.As a verb paper
is to apply paper to.As a proper noun house is
(us) the house of representatives, "the house".paper
English
(wikipedia paper)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
George Goodchild
Synonyms
* (medium used in writing) bookfellDerived terms
* abrasive paper * art paper * banana paper * blotting paper * bog paper * brown paper * butcher paper * carbon paper * chattel paper * cigarette paper * commercial paper * construction paper * * emery paper * filter paper * funny paper * graph paper * green paper * hang paper * linen paper * liquid paper * litmus paper * paper aeroplane/paper airplane * paper ballot * paper candidate * paper chase * paper chromatography * paper clip * paper currency * paper cut * paper cutter * paper fight * paper flower * paper hat * paper mill * paper money * paper nautilus * paper round * paper snowflake * paper tape * paper tiger * paper trail * paperbark * paperboard * paperknife * piece of paper * plain paper * position paper * put pen to paper * quadrille paper * rice paper * scientific paper * sheet of paper * scratch paper * soda paper * term paper * test paper * tissue paper * toilet paper * touch-paper * tracing paper * treacle paper * way out of a paper bag * white paper * wrapping paper * writing paperAdjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- to paper the hallway walls
- After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
- As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.
Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----house
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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 .
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- (Sandys)
- to house the upper spars