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router | house |

As a noun router

is router (a device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet).

As a proper noun house is

(us) the house of representatives, "the house".

router

English

(wikipedia router)

Etymology 1

(route).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
  • The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.
  • * {{quote-book, 1930, Edwin A. Godley and Alexander Kaylin, Control of Retail Store Operations citation
  • , passage=When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control citation
  • , passage=Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers , schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, Mary Kay Allen and Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics citation
  • , passage=The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers .}}
  • (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection]] layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to [[IP, Internet Protocol routers.
  • (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
  • The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.
  • (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
  • See also
    * firewall *

    Etymology 2

    (rout).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
  • He made an attractive edge on the table with a router .
  • A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
  • A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
  • See also
    * (wood router)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
  • * 1952 , John Hooper, Percy A. Wells, Modern Cabinetwork, Furniture and Fitments , page 132,
  • An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering .
  • * 2000 , Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters, Patrick Spielman, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making , page 290,
  • Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered' out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong ' routered version.
  • * 2007 , Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds , page 352,
  • Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.

    Anagrams

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    house

    English

    Noun

    (houses)
  • (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,.
  • #*, chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path 
  • #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).
  • #:
  • #A public house, an inn, or the management of such.
  • #:
  • #(senseid) A place of public entertainment, especially (without qualifying word) a theatre; also the audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 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.}}
  • #A brothel.
  • #(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.
  • #:
  • #A printer's or publishing company.
  • #:
  • #A place of gambling; a casino.
  • #A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
  • #:
  • (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.
  • #:
  • #(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.
  • #
  • #(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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  • Synonyms

    * (establishment) shop * (company or organisation) shop

    Derived 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 * wirehouse

    Verb

    (hous)
  • To keep within a structure or container.
  • The car is housed in the garage.
  • * Evelyn
  • House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
  • To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
  • To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You shall not house with me.
  • (astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
  • * Dryden
  • Where Saturn houses .
  • To contain or cover mechanical parts.
  • (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
  • (Sandys)
  • (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
  • 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) enclose