living thing
animate thing | a living (or once living) entity |
bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
homer
home run | a base hit on which the batter scores a run |
| home game | a game played at home |
| home invasion | burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
harvest harvesting
harvest home | the gathering of a ripened crop |
| home banking | banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer) |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
dwelling
home
domicile
abode
habitation
dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
funeral home
funeral parlor
funeral parlour
funeral chapel
funeral church
funeralesidence | a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
home nursing home
rest home | an institution where people are cared for, a home for the elderly |
home appliance
household appliance | an appliance that does a particular job in the home |
| home computer | a computer intended for use in the home |
| home court | (basketball) the court where the host team plays its home games |
| home-farm | a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment |
home plate
home base home plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands, it must be touched by a base runner in order to score, he ruled that the runner failed to touch home |
home room
homeroom | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business |
home theater
home theatre | television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater |
housing
lodging
living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
living quarters
quarters | housing available for people to live in, he found quarters for his family, I visited his bachelor quarters |
living room
livingoom
sitting room
front room
parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
mental hospital
psychiatric hospital
mental institution
institution mental home
insane asylum
asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
mobile home
manufactured home | a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing |
| smart bomb | a bomb that can be guided (by a laser beam or radio) to its target, smart bombs have revolutionized aerial bombardment |
soap scoop max
liquid ecstasy
grievous bodily harm
goop
Georgia home boy
easy lay | street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate |
| stately home | a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family |
| vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
| free living | a lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites |
protoplasm
living substance | the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) |
| living arrangement | an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist |
life
living | the experience of being alive, the course of human events and activities, he could no longer cope with the complexities of life |
| home truth | an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself) |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
home page
homepage | the opening page of a web site |
| living will | a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness, after he discovered he had AIDS he drew up a living will |
| home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer |
consumer price index
CPI
cost-of-living index | an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer |
tonic key
home key | the basic key in which a piece of music is written |
| home stand | a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court |
home fries
home-fried potatoes | sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp |
home brew
homebrew | an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home |
| living | people who are still living, save your pity for the living |
| home folk | folks from your own home town |
| broken home | a family in which the parents have separated or divorced |
| foster home | a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) |
family household
house home
menage | 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 |
| Home Office | the government department in charge of domestic affairs |