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house
54 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of HOUSE
1
a [count] : a building in which a family lives房子；住宅 — often used before another noun常用于另一名词前
- Would you like to come to my house for dinner?来我家吃饭好吗？
- a two-family house两家合住的房子
- I spent the weekend just puttering around the house.我在家里随便干点杂活度过了整个周末。
- house pets/plants家养宠物/植物
- a house guest来家里过夜的客人
- house parties在家庭举办的聚会
b [singular] : the people who live in a house住在同一所房子的人；全家人
- He made enough noise to wake the whole house.他弄出的声响把全家人都吵醒了。
3
[count] : a building where students or members of a religious group live学生宿舍；宗教会所
- a fraternity house大学男生联谊会会所
4
a [count] : a group of people who meet to discuss and make the laws of a country议院；议会；国会
- The bill has been approved by both houses of Congress.这一议案已经得到了国会两院的一致通过。
- The two houses of the U.S. Congress are the Senate [=the upper house] and the House of Representatives. [=the lower house]美国国会两院分别为参议院和众议院。
- The two houses of the British Parliament are the House of Lords [=the upper house] and the House of Commons. [=the lower house]英国议会两院分别为上议院和下议院。
b the House : house of representatives — see also house of commons, house of lords
- They hope to win enough seats in the election to regain control of the House.他们希望在选举中赢得足够议席，重新掌控众议院。
5
[count]
a : a specified kind of business公司；机构
- a publishing house出版社
- fashion houses时装公司
- an investment banking house投资银行
- a brokerage house经纪公司
b : a place or building where a specified kind of activity or entertainment occurs（某种活动或娱乐的）场所 : a place where an illegal activity occurs（非法活动的）场所 — see also opera house
- an auction house拍卖行
- a house of God/worship [=a place, such as a church, where people go for religious services]教堂
- (US) a movie house [=a cinema, (US) a movie theater]电影院
- a gambling house赌场
- a house of prostitution妓院
c : a particular kind of restaurant特色餐馆 — see also coffeehouse, steak house
- We had dinner at the local fish house.我们是在当地的鱼馆吃的晚饭。
- a seafood house海鲜馆
- Oyster stew is a specialty of the house. [=a special dish that is featured in a restaurant]生蚝炖菜是这家餐馆的特色菜。
◊ A house wine is a basic wine that is always available in a restaurant. A house salad and a house (salad) dressing are the regular salad and dressing in a U.S. restaurant.*house wine指餐馆常备酒。house salad和house (salad) dressing分别指美国餐馆的普通沙拉和普通沙拉酱。
- Would you like the house salad or a spinach salad?你想要普通沙拉还是菠菜沙拉？
- The house dressing is a creamy vinaigrette.普通沙拉调味酱是奶油醋沙司。
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[count] : the audience in a theater or concert hall（剧场或音乐厅的）观众
- They had a full/packed house on opening night.他们的首演之夜，观众爆满，座无虚席。
- When the movie ended, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. [=everyone had tears in their eyes]那场电影结束时，在场观众无一不眼眶含泪。
◊ To bring down the house or to bring the house down is to get great approval and applause or laughter from an audience.博得满堂喝彩；博得全场笑声
- His performance brought down the house night after night.他的表演每晚都能博得满堂喝彩。
7
House [count] : a royal or noble family including ancestors and all the people who are related to them皇族；贵族；王室
- the House of Tudor都铎王室
8
[noncount] : a type of electronic dance music with a heavy, regular beat浩室音乐（一种重节奏电子舞曲）
— called also house music
clean house
US 1
: to clean the floors, furniture, etc., inside a house打扫房子；大扫除
- He cleans house on Tuesdays.他每周二都大扫除。
2
: to make important basic changes in an organization, business, etc., in order to correct problems内部整顿
- After the corruption was revealed, the police chief decided it was time to clean house.那次腐败事件曝光后，警察局长决定要进行内部整顿。
(from) house to house
◊ If you go (from) house to house, you go to each house or apartment in an area and do or ask for something.挨家挨户地
- Volunteers went from house to house asking for donations.志愿者们挨家挨户地募捐。
house in order
◊ To put/get/set (etc.) your house in order is to improve or correct the way you do things.提高自己的水平；解决自身问题
- We should get our (own) house in order before we criticize others for their mistakes.正人先正己。
- The company needs to get its financial house in order. [=to correct its financial problems]那家公司需要解决自身财政问题。
keep house
: to do the work that is needed to take care of a house料理家务 — see also housekeeper, housekeeping
- When I started living on my own I had no idea how to cook or keep house.刚开始独立生活时，我根本不懂做饭，也不会料理家务。
- You need someone to keep house for you.你需要有人给你料理家务。
like a house on fire
informal : extremely well非常好
- Those two got on/along like a house on fire. [=they liked each other very much]他们两人相处得非常融洽。
- (US) The business started out like a house on fire. [=the business started very successfully]这个生意赢得了开门红。
on the house
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
play house
◊ When children play house they pretend that they are adults and that they are doing the things that adults do in a house, such as cooking and serving food.玩“过家家”游戏
- She always loved playing house with her little sister.她总爱跟妹妹玩过家家。
set up house
: to become settled in a house where you are going to live入住；落脚
- They moved to California and set up house in a suburb of Los Angeles.他们搬到了加利福尼亚州，并且在洛杉矶的郊区住了下来。
houses; housed; housing
houses; housed; housing
Learner's definition of HOUSE
[+ object]
1
: to provide shelter or a living space for (someone)给…提供住处 — often used as (be) housed常用作(be) housed
- More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates.需要更多的监狱来关押日益增多的犯人。
- The soldiers were housed in poorly heated huts.士兵们被安排住进了供暖条件差的简陋小屋。
2
: to be a shelter for (something) : to store or contain (something)为…的贮藏处；收藏；安置 — often used as (be) housed常用作(be) housed
- The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels.这家博物馆收藏了一批令人惊叹的珠宝。
- The paintings are now housed in the National Gallery.这些油画现被收藏在国家美术馆。
3
: to surround or enclose (something) in order to protect it包裹；覆盖
- The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes.木匠给热水管加了层保护外壳。
often attributive
3
a
astrology : one of the 12 equal sectors (see sector entry 1 sense 1a) in which the celestial sphere is divided
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a
government : a legislative, deliberative, or consultative assembly
especially : one constituting a division of a bicameral body —often used in capitalized form as the shortened name of a specific house
b
: the building or chamber where such an assembly meets
c
: a quorum of such an assembly
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curling : the circular area 12 feet in diameter surrounding the tee and within which a curling stone must rest in order to count
9
[from The Warehouse, Chicago dance club that pioneered the style] : a type of dance music mixed by a disc jockey that features overdubbing with a heavy repetitive drumbeat and repeated electronic melody lines
housed; housing
: to take shelter : lodge
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Noun Would you like to come to my house for dinner? I spent the weekend just puttering around the house. He made enough noise to wake the whole house. Verb More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates. The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels. The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022 While working to find the source, officers approached a house on Longview Avenue and went around back. Jane Morice | Jmorice@cleveland.com, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2022 The craft of building a log house in the U.S. followed the first Swedish settlers in 1638 to colonies in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2022 Larkmead is a Cabernet house, but the changing climate could mean faster ripening fruit and different tasting wines. Hollie Stephens, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2022 But in truth Eritrea is a human-rights house of horrors. Steve Walker, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022 In Lincoln Heights, Black workers and their families developed their own institutions, including two churches, a cemetery, a hotel, apartment house and club, according to a National Park Service history. Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022 Smietana emphasizes the sense of community that a house of worship can provide. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022 Kim Clark, 69, rents a room in a house in El Cajon that does have air conditioning. Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022 Bytedance has promised to house American data on servers in the United States to quell concerns. Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 3 July 2022 So instead, New York has been paying to house 15,000 high-cost Medicaid recipients on its own. New York Times, 14 June 2022 Huge temporary facilities were set up in exhibition centers and other venues to house thousands of people who had tested positive. Emily Wang Fujiyama And Ken Moritsugu, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022 The firm is likely interested in the space for its Amazon Web Services division and could house around 800 workers at the new facility, Ohl said. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022 Military bases, part of an emergency solution, were never intended to house tens of thousands of new arrivals for lengthy periods; at other bases, Afghans slept in tents in freezing temperatures. Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2022 The University of Maryland is working with an international aid group to temporarily house 25 Afghan refugees on its College Park campus, officials said Tuesday. Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022 And then there is the matter of the money — more than $1 billion of which was temporarily transferred out of NIH to help pay for the health department’s efforts to house unaccompanied children at the U.S. border with Mexico. Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022 See More
Noun
Chantel returns from vacation and has Winter and Karen move into the house. Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022 While working to find the source, officers approached a house on Longview Avenue and went around back. Jane Morice | Jmorice@cleveland.com, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2022 The craft of building a log house in the U.S. followed the first Swedish settlers in 1638 to colonies in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2022 Larkmead is a Cabernet house, but the changing climate could mean faster ripening fruit and different tasting wines. Hollie Stephens, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2022 But in truth Eritrea is a human-rights house of horrors. Steve Walker, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022 In Lincoln Heights, Black workers and their families developed their own institutions, including two churches, a cemetery, a hotel, apartment house and club, according to a National Park Service history. Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022 Smietana emphasizes the sense of community that a house of worship can provide. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022 Kim Clark, 69, rents a room in a house in El Cajon that does have air conditioning. Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022 Verb
The students helped raise money to build a barn to house the cattle on campus five years ago. Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022 Bytedance has promised to house American data on servers in the United States to quell concerns. Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 3 July 2022 So instead, New York has been paying to house 15,000 high-cost Medicaid recipients on its own. New York Times, 14 June 2022 Huge temporary facilities were set up in exhibition centers and other venues to house thousands of people who had tested positive. Emily Wang Fujiyama And Ken Moritsugu, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022 The firm is likely interested in the space for its Amazon Web Services division and could house around 800 workers at the new facility, Ohl said. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022 Military bases, part of an emergency solution, were never intended to house tens of thousands of new arrivals for lengthy periods; at other bases, Afghans slept in tents in freezing temperatures. Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2022 The University of Maryland is working with an international aid group to temporarily house 25 Afghan refugees on its College Park campus, officials said Tuesday. Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022 And then there is the matter of the money — more than $1 billion of which was temporarily transferred out of NIH to help pay for the health department’s efforts to house unaccompanied children at the U.S. border with Mexico. Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Middle English hous, from Old English hūs; akin to Old High German hūs house
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of house was before the 12th century Phrases Containing house
noun¹
noun²
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