different between zoo vs house

English

Etymology

Clipping of zoological garden, now the usual form. See zoology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

zoo (plural zoos)

1. A park where live animals are exhibited.
2. (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

3. (US, military, slang) The jungle.
   • 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)

     I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.

4. (slang) A zoophile.
   • 2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering

     Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation.

   • 2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets (page 129)

     Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […]

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?zo.o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?zo.u/

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoològic.

Further reading

• “zoo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Noun

zoo f

1. zoo

Synonyms

• zoologická zahrada

Danish

Etymology

From English zoo

Noun

zoo c (singular definite zooen, plural indefinite zooer)

1. a zoo, zoological garden

Synonyms

• zoologisk have

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /zo?/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /zu?/, /zo?/
• Hyphenation: zoo
• Rhymes: -o?

Etymology 1

Probably a borrowing from French zoo. Equivalent to a shortening of zoölogische tuin.

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos, diminutive zootje n)

1. (chiefly Belgium) zoo

Synonyms

• dierentuin, diergaarde

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adverb

zoo

1. Archaic spelling of zo.

Esperanto

Etymology

Clipping of zoologia ?ardeno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zoo/
• Hyphenation: zo?o
• Rhymes: -oo

Noun

zoo (accusative singular zoon, plural zooj, accusative plural zoojn)

1. zoo

Synonyms

• besto?ardeno

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo/, /zo.o/

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

• zoologique

Further reading

• “zoo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?z?.o/

Noun

zoo m (invariable)

1. zoo

Related terms

• giardino zoologico

Malay

Etymology

From English zoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu/
• Rhymes: -zu, -u

Noun

zoo

1. zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

Synonyms

• kebun binatang
• taman haiwan

Polish

Etymology

From English zoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z??/

Noun

zoo n (indeclinable)

1. (zoology) zoo (park where live animals are exhibited)

   Synonym: ogród zoologiczny

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• zôo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?zo.u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?zo.u/, /?zow/
• Rhymes: -o.u

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. Clipping of zoológico.

Verb

zoo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of zoar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??oo/, [??o.o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?soo/, [?so.o]

Noun

zoo m (plural zoos)

1. zoo

Related terms

• zoológico

Further reading

• “zoo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Homophone: so

Noun

zoo n

1. zoo

Declension

Related terms

• zoo-

References

• zoo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-?r??H (“good”). Cognate with Iu Mien longx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Adjective

zoo

1. good

Derived terms

• mus zoo
• nyob zoo

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary?^[2], SEAP Publications, ?ISBN.

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