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 |
| housing start | the act of starting to construct a house |
| home game | a game played at home |
position post
berth
office spot billet
place
situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
| 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 |
caparison
trapping housing | stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse |
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) |
| distributor housing | the housing that supports the distributor cam |
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 |
| housing | a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component |
lamp house
lamphouse
lamp housing | housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) |
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 |
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 |
| tract housing | housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land |
| vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
| 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 |
| home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer |
tonic key
home key | the basic key in which a piece of music is written |
situation comedy
sitcom | a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life |
| situation comedy sitcom | a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life |
| 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 |
| 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) |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
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 |