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home (HOHM) (noun)
A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household: Hana made a good home for her husband and children.
home (HOHM) (verb)
To find and to move directly toward someone or something: The medical researcher is trying to home in on the cause of the disease.
Website designers and innovators often mock up multiple designs and test them quickly; then they repeat the process until they home in on the design that seems to be most popular.
hone (HOHn) (noun)
A stone, frequently of fine grain, for filing or whetting tools used for cutting: The red hone was perfect for sharpening the kitchen knives.
hone (HOHn) (verb)
To sharpen or to make intense and effective: Chad tried to hone his speaking skills by practicing every day.
As the scientists started to home in on a solution, they felt as if they had used a hone on their brains which were so tired. When they announced the solution, they cheered and then all of them went home to rest.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group H; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“home”
(Greek > Latin: house, home; master or lord of the house)
(Greek: house, household affairs [environment, habitat], home, dwelling; used in one extensive sense as, "environment")
(Greek: house, dwelling, home)
(art cleptomaniac said, "I enjoy art, I love such works of art, I collected them and kept them at home")
(Greek: away from home)
(Latin: to build, to erect a building; a building, a sanctuary, a temple; originally, aedes, "building a hearth" or "to build a hearth" because the fire in the hearth was the center of the home in early times since it supplied both heat and light; over time, the meaning expanded from the hearth itself to the home and building that enclosed it)
(air purification in the home, business, school, and workplace)
(Greek: return home)
Word Entries containing the term:
“home”
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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funeral home
A building used for the purpose of embalming, arranging, and conducting funerals.
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funer-, funero-, fun-
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A residential facility for the care of elderly people or, in some cases, for people who have serious illnesses or disabilities: Approximately 50% of residents in nursing homes are demented and most suffer from a number of medical conditions related to aging.
The ideal nursing home is well equipped with registered nurses, as well as nurses' aides, has regular visits from a physician, provides access to advanced medical care facilities, and is closely linked, both organizationally and geographically, to community hospitals.
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nutri-, nutrit-
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solar home system (SHS)
A stand-alone electrical power supply system for single buildings by means of solar energy, typically used to operate small appliances in rural areas without electrification.
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sol-, soli-, solo- +
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staycation stay-cation, stacation, staykation; stay-at-home vacation
1. A vacation in which people stay home or visit places close to where they live.
2. A time in which an individual, or family stays, and relaxes at home; possibly taking day trips to local area attractions.
3. A portmanteau of "stay" (stay-at-home) and "vacation".
2. A time in which an individual, or family stays, and relaxes at home; possibly taking day trips to local area attractions.
3. A portmanteau of "stay" (stay-at-home) and "vacation".
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-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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vacu-
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“home”
Home prices in U.S. still deteriorating
"The American housing market seems to be getting worse as time passes."
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Words Used in Headlines and Subheadlines as Seen in a Variety of Publications
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home theater, home cinema
An area within the home set aside for use as a cinema, with a projector, screen and audio equipment designed to replicate the experience of visiting the cinema within the home.
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Interior Design
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