different between warehouse vs whorehouse

English

Etymology

From ware +? house.

Noun

warehouse (plural warehouses)

1. A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

Hypernyms

• house

Derived terms

• warehouseman

Translations

Verb

warehouse (third-person singular simple present warehouses, present participle warehousing, simple past and past participle warehoused)

1. (transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.
   • 1894, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports

     Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.

2. (transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
3. (transitive, business) To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.

   the warehousing of syndicated TV shows

Translations

Anagrams

• houseware

English

Alternative forms

• whore-house

Etymology

From Middle English horehous, equivalent to whore +? house. Cognate with Dutch hoerenhuis (“whorehouse”), German Hurenhaus (“whorehouse”), Danish horehus (“whorehouse”), Swedish horhus (“whorehouse”), Icelandic hóruhús (“whorehouse; brothel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

whorehouse (plural whorehouses)

1. (vulgar) Brothel.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:brothel

Hypernyms

• house