House vs. Shop — What's the Difference?

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.

Also shoppe A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.

A building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys

An atelier; a studio.

A building in which people meet for a particular activity

A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.

A religious community that occupies a particular building

A commercial or industrial establishment

A legislative or deliberative assembly

A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.

A style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat

A home workshop.

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 schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.

Old-fashioned term for bingo

The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.

(of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.

To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains.

Relating to a firm, institution, or society

To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.

Provide with shelter or accommodation

To visit or buy from (a particular store).

Provide space for; contain or accommodate

An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.

A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.

A household or family.

A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.

Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.

A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit

Discussion of business or professional affairs.

A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something

A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.

A building devoted to a particular activity

An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public

An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

The seating area in such an establishment

(intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

The audience or patrons of such an establishment

(transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).

A commercial firm

To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

A publishing company

To imprison.

A gambling casino.

To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

(Slang) A house of prostitution.

(dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

A residential college within a university.

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.

The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; - sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.

A quorum of such an assembly.

A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop;

Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family

Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.

One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.

The group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop.

The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

House music.

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

To provide living quarters for; lodge

Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure

A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity);

To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.

Do one's shopping;

(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.

Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

To reside; dwell.

Shop around; not necessarily buying;

To take shelter.

Give away information about somebody;

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

An apartment building within a public housing estate.

(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.

A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.

The people who live in a house; a household.

A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).

A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.

A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.

(historical) A workhouse.

The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

A theatre.

(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

(metaphorical) A place of rest or repose.

A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

Lotto; bingo.

(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

A small stand of trees in a swamp.

(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.

(music genre) House music.

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.

(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.

(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

(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.

To eat.

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.

Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

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.

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.

A firm, or commercial establishment.

A public house; an inn; a hotel.

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.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

The body, as the habitation of the soul.

The grave.

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.

To drive to a shelter.

To admit to residence; to harbor.

To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families;

An official assembly having legislative powers;

A building in which something is sheltered or located;

A social unit living together;

A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;

Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments;

Aristocratic family line;

The members of a religious community living together

The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema;

Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults;

(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

The management of a gambling house or casino;

Contain or cover;

Provide housing for;