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- a small house with a single story
- A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
- (Singapore, Malaysia) A detached, freestanding house or mansion.
- (Atlantic Canada) A chalet or lodge.
- A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.
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- a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
- small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
- the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
- (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
- A private room on a ship.
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
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- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A den or cave.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
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- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
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- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- an environment offering affection and security
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- a social unit living together
- an institution where people are cared for
- housing that someone is living in
- the country or state or city where you live
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- where you live at a particular time
- place where something began and flourished
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- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- To one's place of birth.
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
- to the fullest extent; to the heart
- on or to the point aimed at
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- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
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- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- 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.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (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.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
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- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
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- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A movable barrier.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
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- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
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- small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
- basin for holy water
- an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
- (architecture, chiefly New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- (architecture, US) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
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- sag, bend, bend over or down
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward
- descend swiftly, as if on prey
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
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- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
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- A small rectangular shelter.
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
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- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
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- A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- (uncountable) Permission to enter.
- A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
- A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
- The act of entering.
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
- (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
- (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
- (law) The act of taking possession.
- (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- something that provides access (to get in or get out)
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an item inserted in a written record
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of entering
- a written record of a commercial transaction
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- the grounds in back of a house
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
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- a small house with a single story
- A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
- (Singapore, Malaysia) A detached, freestanding house or mansion.
- (Atlantic Canada) A chalet or lodge.
- A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.
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- a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
- small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
- the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
- (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
- A private room on a ship.
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
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- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A den or cave.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
verb
- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
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- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- an environment offering affection and security
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- a social unit living together
- an institution where people are cared for
- housing that someone is living in
- the country or state or city where you live
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- where you live at a particular time
- place where something began and flourished
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- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- To one's place of birth.
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
- to the fullest extent; to the heart
- on or to the point aimed at
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- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
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- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- 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.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (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.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
verb
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
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- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A movable barrier.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
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- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
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- small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
- basin for holy water
- an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
- (architecture, chiefly New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- (architecture, US) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
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- sag, bend, bend over or down
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward
- descend swiftly, as if on prey
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- (intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
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- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
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- A small rectangular shelter.
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
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- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
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- A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- (uncountable) Permission to enter.
- A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
- A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
- The act of entering.
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
- (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
- (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
- (law) The act of taking possession.
- (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- something that provides access (to get in or get out)
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an item inserted in a written record
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of entering
- a written record of a commercial transaction
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- the grounds in back of a house
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
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- a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
- small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
- the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
- (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
- A private room on a ship.
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.