Park vs Home - What's the difference?
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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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, title= (UK) An inventory of matériel.
(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 )
(lb) A dwelling.
#One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
#* (William Tyndale), , xx, 10:
#*:And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home .
#*1808 , (John Dryden), (Walter Scott) (editor), The Works of John Dryden :
#*:Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
#*1822 , (John Howard Payne), :
#*:Home'! '''home'''! sweet, sweet '''home'''! / There’s no place like '''home''', there’s no place like ' home .
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#*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
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#*:Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes , burying victims under rubble and sludge.
#The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
#*2004', Jean Harrison, '''''Home :
#*:The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
#The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
#*1837 , (George Gordon Byron),
#*:He enter'd in the house—his home' no more, / For without hearts there is no ' home ;
#A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
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#(lb) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
#*1769 , King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, , xii, 5:
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One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
*1863', (Nathaniel Hawthorne), ''
*:Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home .
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*:So this was my future home , I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1980 , (Peter Allen), song, (I Still Call Australia Home) :
*:I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home .
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
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*1849 , (Alfred Tennyson), :
*:Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
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*:Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
(lb) A focus point.
# The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
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#(lb) Home plate.
#(lb) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
#(lb) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
Shortened form of homeboy .
*2008 , (Breaking Bad)'', ''Cancer Man :
*:Jesse Pinkman: Hey, homes . I'm joking! OK? I'm totally joking!
(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
* 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist :
Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
To one’s home or country.
* 1863 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne),
Close; closely.
* 1625 , (Francis Bacon), dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral ,
* 1718 , (Robert South), Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, And upon ?everal Occasions ,
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare) The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice , Act 5, Scene 1,
In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
(UK, soccer) Into the goal.
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(internet) To the home page.
As proper nouns the difference between park and home
is that park is ) the third most common korean surname while home is .As a noun home is
(computing) a key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the internet to the top of the web page.park
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.
Antonyms
(bring to a halt) (l)home
English
Noun
(wikipedia home) (en noun)Don Juan:
Our Old '''Home: A Series of English Sketches :
Synonyms
* tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence * home baseDerived terms
* at home * at-homeness * bring home * broken home * drive home * funeral home * holiday home * homebuilder * home computer * Home Depot * home-grown * home help * home is where you hang your hat * home is where the heart is * home-made * home movie * homeowner * home ownership, homeownership * home plate * home run * Home Secretary * homesickness * home stretch * home teach * home team * motor home * nursing home * parental home (home)Verb
(hom)- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* home base * home brew * home economics * home farm * home front * home lot * home movie * home page * home port * home plate * home range * home rule * home ruler * home run * home stretch * home theater * home thrust * home videoAdverb
(-)- go home'', ''come home'', ''carry home .
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ?hewing with what high impudence ?ome among?t us defend sin, ...
- to drive a nail home'''''; ''to ram a cartridge '''home
- ... Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home : ...
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home .
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- Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
- Click here to go home .