house vs place

house

noun
  • A place of rest or repose. 

  • House music. 

  • A workhouse. 

  • An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. 

  • A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. 

  • A theatre. 

  • An apartment building within a public housing estate. 

  • One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. 

  • A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. 

  • Size and quality of residential accommodations. 

  • The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. 

  • A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. 

  • A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof. 

  • The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. 

  • Lotto; bingo. 

  • A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). 

  • A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household. 

  • A small stand of trees in a swamp. 

  • 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. 

  • The people who live in a house; a household. 

  • A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these. 

  • A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. 

  • The fourth Lenormand card. 

  • A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. 

verb
  • To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses. 

  • To admit to residence; to harbor. 

  • To contain or cover mechanical parts. 

  • To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole. 

  • To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. 

  • To eat. 

  • To keep within a structure or container. 

  • To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe. 

place

noun
  • The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. 

  • An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. 

  • Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. 

  • A state of mind. 

  • The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. 

  • An area of the body, especially the skin. 

  • An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. 

  • The position of a contestant in a competition. 

  • A location or position in space. 

  • Reception; effect; implying the making room for. 

  • A role or purpose; a station. 

  • A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name. 

  • The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms. 

  • A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. 

  • The position as a member of a sports team. 

  • Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding. 

  • An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. 

  • Any area of the earth: a region. 

verb
  • To arrange for or to make (a bet). 

  • To finish second, especially of horses or dogs. 

  • To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. 

  • To earn a given spot in a competition. 

  • To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. 

  • To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. 

  • To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar). 

  • To put (an object or person) in a specific location. 

  • To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc. 

  • To place-kick (a goal). 

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