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House vs. Store — What's the Difference?

House vs. Store — What's the Difference?

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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.

Store

A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.

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

Store

A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.

House

A building in which people meet for a particular activity
A house of prayer
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Store

Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.

House

A religious community that occupies a particular building
The Cistercian house at Clairvaux

Store

A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.

House

A legislative or deliberative assembly
The sixty-member National Council, the country's upper house

Store

A great quantity or number; an abundance.

House

A style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat
DJs specializing in techno, garage, and house

Store

To reserve or put away for future use.

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.

Store

To fill, supply, or stock.

House

Old-fashioned term for bingo

Store

To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.

House

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

Store

(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.

House

Relating to a firm, institution, or society
A house journal

Store

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.

House

Provide with shelter or accommodation
They converted a disused cinema to house twelve employees

Store

A supply held in storage.

House

Provide space for; contain or accommodate
The museum houses a collection of Roman sculpture

Store

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.

House

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

Store

Memory.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

House

A household or family.

Store

A great quantity or number; abundance.

House

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

Store

A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

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.

Store

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
I'll store these books in the attic.

House

A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something
A carriage house.
The lion house at the zoo.

Store

Contain.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

House

A building devoted to a particular activity
A customs house.
A house of worship.

Store

Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

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.

Store

To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.

House

The seating area in such an establishment
Dimmed the lights in the house to signal the start of the show.

Store

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.

House

The audience or patrons of such an establishment
A full house.

Store

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

House

A commercial firm
A brokerage house.

Store

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

House

A publishing company
A house that specializes in cookbooks.

Store

Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.

House

A gambling casino.

Store

Accumulated; hoarded.

House

(Slang) A house of prostitution.

Store

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.

House

A residential college within a university.

Store

To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.

House

Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

Store

To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

House

The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

Store

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod

House

A quorum of such an assembly.

Store

A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars

House

Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family
The House of Orange.

Store

An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached

House

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

Store

A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks

House

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

Store

Keep or lay aside for future use;
Store grain for the winter
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

House

House music.

Store

Find a place for and put away for storage;
Where should we stow the vegetables?
I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some

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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