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House can be a verb or a noun.

house used as a verb:

  1. To keep within a structure or container.
    "The car is housed in the garage."
  2. To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
  3. To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
  4. To contain or cover mechanical parts.
  5. To steal, esp. one's intellectual property, such as ideas, music, etc.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

house used as a noun:

  1. A structure serving as an abode of human beings.
    "This is my house and my family's ancestral home."
  2. The mode of living as if in a house.
    "They set up house in a posh apartment."
  3. The usual place to find an object or an animal.
    "The photo was put in its little house."
  4. A structure to protect or store something or someone.
    "The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house."
  5. A protective structure on the deck of a ship.
    "A pilot took charge of the wheel house until the ship was moored."
  6. A theatre building, or the audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
    "After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house."
  7. A deliberative assembly forming a component of a legislature, or, more rarely, the room or building in which such an assembly normally meets.
  8. An establishment, whether actual, as a pub, or virtual, as a website.
  9. A company or organisation.
    "A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house."
  10. A dynasty, a familial descendance, for example, a royal House.
    "The current Queen is from the House of Windsor."
  11. One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
  12. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
    "I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school."
  13. House music.
  14. The three concentric circles where points are scored on the ice
  15. An early or alternative name for the game bingo.
  16. A complete set of numbers in bingo.
  17. An aggregate of characteristics of a house.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is house?

As detailed above, 'house' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: The car is housed in the garage.
  2. Noun usage: This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
  3. Noun usage: They set up house in a posh apartment.
  4. Noun usage: The photo was put in its little house.
  5. Noun usage: The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
  6. Noun usage: A pilot took charge of the wheel house until the ship was moored.
  7. Noun usage: After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
  8. Noun usage: Is there a doctor in the house?
  9. Noun usage: A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
  10. Noun usage: The current Queen is from the House of Windsor.
  11. Noun usage: I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of house are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of house, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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