different between house vs body

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English h?s (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *h?s? (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Norwegian Bokmål hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Compare also Northern Luri ???? (höš, “house, home”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.

The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply h?s.)

Alternative forms

• howse (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: hous, IPA^(key): /ha?s/
• (Canada, Virginia) IPA^(key): /h??s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

1. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]

   • The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
2. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]

   • one that feared God with all his house

3. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
   1. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]

   2. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.[from 10th c.]

   3. (historical) A workhouse.
      • 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)

        To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.

4. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
5. A theatre.

6. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]

7. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]

8. (figuratively) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
   • 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour

     Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.

   • 1815, Walter Scott, The Lord of the Isles

     Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death  […].

9. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]

10. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
11. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:

      Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.

12. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
13. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
14. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
15. Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
16. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

17. (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
18. (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 in classic Sudoku.

Synonyms

• (establishment): shop
• (company or organisation): shop

Hypernyms

• building

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Nigerian Pidgin: haus
• Tok Pisin: haus
• Sranan Tongo: oso
  • ? Dutch: osso

Translations

See house/translations § Noun.

Further reading

• house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• house (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English housen, from Old English h?sian, from Proto-Germanic *h?s?n? (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: houz, IPA^(key): /ha?z/
• Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z
• Homophone: how's (verb)

Verb

house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)

1. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
2. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
4. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

   • Where Saturn houses.

5. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
6. (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
8. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
   • 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments

     Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre

9. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

10. (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat.
    • 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")

      All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.

Synonyms

• (keep within a structure or container): store
• (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
• (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

Noun

house (uncountable)

2. (music) House music.

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ou?s?]

Etymology 1

Noun

house n

1. gosling

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

house m anim

1. house music, house

Further reading

• house in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• house in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

house m (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?u?s/, [?h?u?s?]
• Syllabification: hou?se

Noun

house (uncountable)

1. (music) house music, house

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aws/

Noun

house f (uncountable)

1. house music, house (genre of music)

Synonyms

• house music

Anagrams

• houes, houés

Hungarian

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?uz]
• Hyphenation: house
• Rhymes: -uz

Noun

house (plural house-ok)

1. (music) house, house music (type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

Declension

Derived terms

• house-parti
• house-zene

References

Middle English

Noun

house

1. Alternative form of hous

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English house, house music

Noun

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Synonyms

• housemusikk

References

• “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

house m

1. house music, house

Polish

Etymology

From English house music.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaws/

Noun

house m inan

1. house, house music

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjectives) house'owy, housowy

Further reading

• house in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• house in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English house music

Noun

house m

1. house music, house

   Synonym: música house

Spanish

Etymology

From English house music.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xaus/, [?xau?s]

Noun

house m (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Swedish

Etymology

From English house music

Noun

house c

1. house music, house

Declension

Synonyms

• housemusik, house-musik

English

Alternative forms

• bodie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bodi, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be awake, observe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?di/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?di/, [?b??i]
• Rhymes: -?di
• Hyphenation: bod?y
• Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

1. Physical frame.
   1. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]

      I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

   2. The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. [from 13th c.]

      The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

   3. A corpse. [from 13th c.]

      Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.

   4. (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
      • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:

        Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]

      • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 28:

        Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.

      What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?

   5. (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
      • 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)

        This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.

      • 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)

        In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.

      • 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)

        As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.

2. Main section.
   1. The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]

      The boxer took a blow to the body.

   2. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]

      The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.

   3. (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]

      Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.

   4. The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
   5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
   6. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]

      In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

3. Coherent group.
   1. A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]

      I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

   2. An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]

      The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

   3. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]

      We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

4. Material entity.
   1. Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]

      All bodies are held together by internal forces.

   2. (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
      • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

        The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

      We have given body to what was just a vague idea.

   3. (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]

      The red wine, sadly, lacked body.

   4. An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
      • 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:

        In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]

      • 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "World's largest extrusive body of sand?", Geology, volume 40, issue 5

        Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km³) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.

      • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

        The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole. 

      The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.

5. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).

   a nonpareil face on an agate body

   • 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, ?Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)

     The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.

6. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:body
• See also Thesaurus:corpse

Derived terms

Pages starting with “body”.

Translations

See also

• corporal
• corporeal

Verb

body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)

1. To give body or shape to something.

   And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
3. (transitive) To embody.
4. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
5. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
6. (transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

References

Anagrams

• BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bod?/
• Rhymes: -od?
• Hyphenation: bo?dy

Etymology 1

From English body, bodysuit.

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

1. bodysuit, leotard

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

body

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod

Anagrams

• doby

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English body.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.di/
• Hyphenation: bo?dy

Noun

body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)

1. A leotard.
2. Body, substance.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?body/, [?bo?dy]
• IPA^(key): /?bodi/, [?bo?di]
• Rhymes: -ody
• Homophone: bodi
• Syllabification: bo?dy

Noun

body

1. snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)

Declension

Pronunciation ?body:

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.di/

Noun

body m (invariable)

1. leotard

   Synonym: calzamaglia

Further reading

• body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Scots

Alternative forms

• bodie

Etymology

From Middle English body, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).

Noun

body (plural bodies)

1. body
2. person, human being

Spanish

Noun

body m (plural bodys or bodies)

1. bodysuit