House vs. Residence — What's the Difference?
Difference Between House and Residence
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House
A house is a single-unit residential building, which may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space.
Residence
A residence is a place (normally a building) used as a home or dwelling, where people reside.
House
A building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys
House prices
A house of Cotswold stone
Residence
A person's home, especially a large and impressive one
The youth hostel has been adapted from a private residence
House
A building in which people meet for a particular activity
A house of prayer
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Residence
The place in which one lives; a dwelling.
House
A religious community that occupies a particular building
The Cistercian house at Clairvaux
Residence
The act or a period of residing in a place.
House
A legislative or deliberative assembly
The sixty-member National Council, the country's upper house
Residence
A medical residency.
House
A style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat
DJs specializing in techno, garage, and house
Residence
The official home or location of a corporation.
House
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.
Residence
The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
House
Old-fashioned term for bingo
Residence
A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house#Noun or an apartment#Noun therein.
House
(of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.
Residence
The place where a corporation is established.
House
Relating to a firm, institution, or society
A house journal
Residence
The state of living in a particular place or environment.
House
Provide with shelter or accommodation
They converted a disused cinema to house twelve employees
Residence
Accommodation for students at a university or college.
House
Provide space for; contain or accommodate
The museum houses a collection of Roman sculpture
Residence
The place where anything rests permanently.
House
A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.
Residence
Subsidence, as of a sediment
House
A household or family.
Residence
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
House
Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.
Residence
(espionage) rezidentura
House
A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit
A sorority house.
Residence
The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.
The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
House
A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something
A carriage house.
The lion house at the zoo.
Residence
The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.
Johnson took up his residence in London.
House
A building devoted to a particular activity
A customs house.
A house of worship.
Residence
The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; - opposed to nonresidence.
House
A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public
A movie house.
The specialty of the house.
Residence
The place where anything rests permanently.
But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship.
House
The seating area in such an establishment
Dimmed the lights in the house to signal the start of the show.
Residence
Subsidence, as of a sediment.
House
The audience or patrons of such an establishment
A full house.
Residence
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
House
A commercial firm
A brokerage house.
Residence
Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily;
A person can have several residences
House
A publishing company
A house that specializes in cookbooks.
Residence
The official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president);
He refused to live in the governor's residence
House
A gambling casino.
Residence
The act of dwelling in a place
House
(Slang) A house of prostitution.
Residence
A large and imposing house
House
A residential college within a university.
House
Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.
House
The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.
House
A quorum of such an assembly.
House
Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family
The House of Orange.
House
One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
House
The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.
House
House music.
House
To provide living quarters for; lodge
The cottage housed ten students.
House
To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure
A library housing rare books.
House
To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.
House
(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.
House
To reside; dwell.
House
To take shelter.
House
A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
House
An apartment building within a public housing estate.
House
(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.
House
A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
House
The people who live in a house; a household.
House
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
House
A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
House
A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
The house always wins.
House
(historical) A workhouse.
House
The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
House
A theatre.
After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
House
(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
House
A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
House
(metaphorical) A place of rest or repose.
House
A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
House
An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
House
(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
House
(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
House
A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
House
(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
House
Lotto; bingo.
House
(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
House
A small stand of trees in a swamp.
House
(sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
House
(music genre) House music.
House
(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
The car is housed in the garage.
House
(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
House
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
House
To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
House
(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
House
(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
House
(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
House
(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
House
(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
To house the upper spars
House
To eat.
House
A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
Houses are built to live in; not to look on.
Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stenchAre from their hives and houses driven away.
House
Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.
House
Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
One that feared God with all his house.
House
A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.
The last remaining pillar of their house,The one transmitter of their ancient name.
House
One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
House
A public house; an inn; a hotel.
House
A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
House
A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
House
An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
House
The body, as the habitation of the soul.
This mortal house I'll ruin,Do Cæsar what he can.
House
The grave.
House
To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
At length have housed me in a humble shed.
House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
House
To drive to a shelter.
House
To admit to residence; to harbor.
Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
House
To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
House
To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
House
To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.
You shall not house with me.
House
A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families;
He has a house on Cape Cod
She felt she had to get out of the house
House
An official assembly having legislative powers;
The legislature has two houses
House
A building in which something is sheltered or located;
They had a large carriage house
House
A social unit living together;
He moved his family to Virginia
It was a good Christian household
I waited until the whole house was asleep
The teacher asked how many people made up his home
House
A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;
The house was full
House
Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments;
He worked for a brokerage house
House
Aristocratic family line;
The House of York
House
The members of a religious community living together
House
The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema;
The house applauded
He counted the house
House
Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults;
The children were playing house
House
(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
House
The management of a gambling house or casino;
The house gets a percentage of every bet
House
Contain or cover;
This box houses the gears
House
Provide housing for;
The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town
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