house
- a building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys；the people living in a house; a household
- (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.；relating to a firm, institution, or society
- provide with shelter or accommodation；provide space for; contain or accommodate
verb: house, 3rd person present: houses, gerund or present participle: housing, past tense: housed, past participle: housed
noun: house, plural noun: houses
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名詞
- 1. a building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys my wife and I are moving to a new house a house of Cotswold stone 同義詞
- ▪ the people living in a house; a household make yourself scarce before you wake the whole house 同義詞
- ▪ a noble, royal, or wealthy family or lineage; a dynasty the power and prestige of the House of Stewart 同義詞
- ▪ Scottish a dwelling that is one of several in a building.
- ▪ a building in which animals live or in which things are kept a hen house
- 2. a building in which people meet for a particular activity a house of prayer
- ▪ a firm or institution a publishing house 同義詞
- ▪ British informal the Stock Exchange.
- ▪ a restaurant or inn help yourself to a drink, compliments of the house! a carafe of house wine 同義詞
- ▪ dated a brothel.
- ▪ a theatre a hundred musicians performed in front of a full house 同義詞
- ▪ British a performance in a theatre or cinema tickets for the first house
- 3. a religious community that occupies a particular building the Cistercian house at Clairvaux
- ▪ a residential building for pupils at a boarding school a house of 45 boarders a house prefect
- ▪ British each of a number of groups into which pupils at a day school are divided for games or competition.
- ▪ British formal a college of a university.
- 4. a legislative or deliberative assembly the sixty-member National Council, the country's upper house 同義詞
- ▪ (in the UK) the House of Commons or Lords; (in the US) the House of Representatives the government commanded an overall majority in the House
- ▪ used in formal debates that mimic the procedures of a legislative assembly a debate on the motion ‘This house would legalize cannabis’ 同義詞
- 5. a style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat DJs specializing in techno, garage, and house
- 6. a twelfth division of the celestial sphere, based on the positions of the ascendant and midheaven at a given time and place, and determined by any of a number of methods.
- ▪ a twelfth division of the celestial sphere represented as a sector on an astrological chart, used in allocating elements of character and circumstance to different spheres of human life.
- 7. British old-fashioned term for bingo
- ▪ used by a bingo player to announce that they have won.
形容詞
- 1. (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.
- 2. relating to a firm, institution, or society a house journal
- ▪ (of a band or group) resident or regularly performing in a club or other venue the house band
動詞
- 1. provide with shelter or accommodation they converted a disused cinema to house twelve employees 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. provide space for; contain or accommodate the museum houses a collection of Roman sculpture 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ fix (something) in a socket or mortise.
- 3. North American informal eat the whole of (something), typically very quickly it could be that I just housed a massive burrito, but I don't feel good
- (in the UK) the Houses of Lords and Commons regarded together, or the building where they meet ...
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- (in the UK) the Houses of Lords and Commons regarded together, or the building where they meet ...
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- completely safe
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- take a circuitous route to one's destination
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- take a circuitous route to one's destination
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- the halfway point in a progression: suspension of the talks was only a halfway house towards complete termination
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- a tall, narrow traditional terraced house, generally having three or more floors.
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- an audience, or a group of people attending a meeting, that fills the venue for the event to ... he seemed a trifle unnerved playing to a full house
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- a building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of ... my wife and I are moving to a new house house prices
- (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.
- provide (a person or animal) with shelter or living quarters: we make exceptions to these rules if we need to house someone urgently
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