House vs Theater - 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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# (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.
A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
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A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
A lecture theatre.
(medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
(US) A cinema.
Drama or performance as a profession or artform.
As a proper noun house
is (us) the house of representatives, "the house".As a noun theater is
theater, theatre.house
English
Noun
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Synonyms
* (establishment) shop * (company or organisation) shopDerived terms
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* (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) enclosetheater
English
Alternative forms
* theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries except the USA)Noun
(en noun)- The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.
- His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
- This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
- We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
- I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.