Hose vs. House: What's the Difference?

Pl. hose Stockings; socks. Used only in the plural.

A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.

Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural.

A household or family.

Breeches reaching down to the knees. Used only in the plural.

Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.

Pl. hos·es A flexible tube for conveying liquids or gases under pressure.

A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit

To water, drench, or wash with a hose

A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something

To attack and kill (someone), typically by use of a firearm:

A building devoted to a particular activity

To exploit, cheat, or defraud.

A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public

(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.

The seating area in such an establishment

(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.

The audience or patrons of such an establishment

(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.

A commercial firm

(transitive) To water or spray with a hose.

A publishing company

(transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.

A gambling casino.

(transitive) To deliver using a hose.

(Slang) A house of prostitution.

(transitive) To provide with hose garment

A residential college within a university.

(transitive) To trick or deceive.

Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.

The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

A quorum of such an assembly.

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.

Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family

Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.

A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.

The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.

Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)

House music.

Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet

To provide living quarters for; lodge

A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure

Water with a hose;

To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.

(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.

To reside; dwell.

To take shelter.

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

An apartment building within a public housing estate.

(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.

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

The people who live in a house; a household.

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

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.

(historical) A workhouse.

The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

A theatre.

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

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

(metaphorical) A place of rest or repose.

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

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

(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

Lotto; bingo.

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

A small stand of trees in a swamp.

(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.

(music genre) House music.

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.

(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.

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

To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.

(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.

(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

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

To eat.

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.

Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.

One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.

A firm, or commercial establishment.

A public house; an inn; a hotel.

A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

The body, as the habitation of the soul.

The grave.

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.

To drive to a shelter.

To admit to residence; to harbor.

To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.

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

A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families;

An official assembly having legislative powers;

A building in which something is sheltered or located;

A social unit living together;

A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;

Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments;

Aristocratic family line;

The members of a religious community living together

The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema;

Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults;

(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

The management of a gambling house or casino;

Contain or cover;

Provide housing for;