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• noun a reception held in your own home
  
• adverb on the home team's field
  
  • they played at home last night
• adverb at, to, or toward the place where you reside
  
  • he worked at home

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• .(a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers.

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• verb make understandable and clear
  
  • This brings home my point
• verb earn as a salary or wage
  bring home.
  
  • How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?

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• verb attain success or reach a desired goal
  win; come through; succeed; deliver the goods.
  
  • The enterprise succeeded
  • We succeeded in getting tickets to the show
  • she struggled to overcome her handicap and won
• verb supply means of subsistence; earn a living
  provide.
  
  • He provides for his large family by working three jobs
  • Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon

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• noun a family in which the parents have separated or divorced
  

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• verb become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
  get through; get across; sink in; fall into place; penetrate; dawn; click.
  
  • It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
  • she was penetrated with sorrow

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• noun an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)
  detention house; detention camp; house of detention.
  

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• verb carry out or perform
  deliver.
  
  • deliver an attack", "deliver a blow
  • The boxer drove home a solid left
• verb make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
  drive home; press home.
  
  • drive home a point or an argument
  • I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas

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• noun the central credit system for thrift institutions
  

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• noun a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages
  Freddie Mac; FHLMC.
  

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• noun a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)
  

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• noun a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects
  funeral parlor; funeral church; funeral-residence; funeral parlour; funeral chapel.
  

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• noun street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
  grievous bodily harm; liquid ecstasy; max; easy lay; scoop; goop; soap.
  

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• verb return home
  go home.
  
  • After the movie, we went home

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• noun the gathering of a ripened crop
  harvest; harvesting.
  

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Har"vest-home" noun

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1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest; the time of harvest.

   Showed like a stubble land at harvest-home. Shak.

2. The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden.
3. A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
4. The opportunity of gathering treasure. Shak.

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• verb return home
  go home.
  
  • After the movie, we went home

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• verb refer to or be relevant or familiar to
  strike a note; hit home; strike a chord.
  
  • I hope this message hits home!

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• noun an appliance that does a particular job in the home
  household appliance.
  

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• noun a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home
  home away from home.
  

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• noun banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer)
  

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• noun (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
  home; home base; plate.
  
  • he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
• noun (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
  central office; main office; headquarters; home base.
  
  • many companies have their headquarters in New York

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• (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making a run.

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• noun an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home
  homebrew.
  

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• noun someone buying a house
  

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• noun a computer intended for use in the home
  

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• noun the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded
  

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• noun (basketball) the court where the host team plays its home games
  

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• the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. Eng.

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• noun theory and practice of homemaking
  household arts; home ec; domestic science.
  

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• noun theory and practice of homemaking
  household arts; home ec; domestic science.
  

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• noun a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home
  home equity credit; home equity loan; equity credit line.
  

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• noun a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home
  home equity credit; home equity loan; equity credit line.
  

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• etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.

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• noun folks from your own home town
  

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• noun sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp
  home fries.
  

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• noun a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home
  home away from home.
  

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• noun the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war
  

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• noun a game played at home
  

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• noun the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
  habitat.
  
  • a marine habitat
  • he felt safe on his home grounds

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• noun a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
  

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• noun a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)
  

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• verb direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids
  zero in; range in.
  

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• noun burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home
  

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• noun the basic key in which a piece of music is written
  tonic key.
  

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• noun a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home
  home equity credit; home equity loan; equity credit line.
  

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• noun one of 11 regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region
  

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• an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. U. S.

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• noun a film made at home by an amateur photographer
  

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• noun the government department in charge of domestic affairs
  
• noun (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
  central office; main office; headquarters; home base.
  
  • many companies have their headquarters in New York

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• noun the opening page of a web site
  homepage.
  

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• noun (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
  home; home base; plate.
  
  • he ruled that the runner failed to touch home

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• noun the port from which a ship originates of where it is registered
  

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• noun the area in which an animal normally ranges
  home range.
  

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• noun United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either
  National Guard.
  

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• noun a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business
  homeroom.
  

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• noun self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government
  

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• rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament.

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• one who favors or advocates home rule.

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• noun a base hit on which the batter scores a run
  homer.
  
• noun something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
  bull's eye; bell ringer; mark.
  
  • the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer
  • scored a bull's eye
  • hit the mark
  • the president's speech was a home run

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• (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base.

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• noun the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office
  Home Secretary.
  

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• noun a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court
  

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• (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post.

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• noun a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom
  

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• noun the area in which an animal normally ranges
  home range.
  

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• noun television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater
  home theater.
  

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• noun television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater
  home theater.
  

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• a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack.

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• noun an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)
  

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• adjective satellite baked at home
  
  • home-baked cakes and pies

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Home"-bound` adjective

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1. Kept at home.

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Home"-bred` adjective

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1. Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton.

   Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated.

   Only to me home-bred youths belong. Dryden.

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• adjective satellite brewed at home
  
  • home-brewed beer

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• noun someone who builds houses as a business
  homebuilder; house-builder; housebuilder.
  

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Home-com`ing noun

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1. Return home.

   Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge. Chaucer.

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• adjective satellite cured at home
  
  • home-cured hams

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Home"-driv`en adjective

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1. Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

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Home"-dwell`ing adjective

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1. Keeping at home.

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• noun a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment
  

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Home"-felt` adjective

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1. Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "Home-felt quiet. Pope.

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• noun sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp
  home fries.
  

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Home"-keep`ing adjective

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1. Staying at home; not gadding.

   Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.

Home"-keep`ing noun

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1. A staying at home.

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• adjective satellite devoted to home duties and pleasures
  

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• verb educate (one's children) at home instead of sending (them) to a school
  
  • The parents are home-schooling their daughter

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Home"-speak`ing noun

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1. Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.

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• adjective satellite as if in the home
  
  • home-style cooking

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• noun the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective
  

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• noun pigeon trained to return home
  homer.
  

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• noun a torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines)
  

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• the grave.

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• noun a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing
  manufactured home.
  

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• noun a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
  psychiatric hospital; mental institution; mental hospital; insane asylum; asylum; institution.
  

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• noun a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing
  manufactured home.
  

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• noun a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling
  camper; camping bus.
  

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• noun an institution where people are cared for
  home; nursing home.
  
  • a home for the elderly

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• verb make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
  drive home; press home.
  
  • drive home a point or an argument
  • I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas

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• verb make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
  drive home; press home.
  
  • drive home a point or an argument
  • I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas

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• noun an institution where people are cared for
  home; nursing home.
  
  • a home for the elderly

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• noun the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office
  Home Secretary.
  

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• noun a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family
  

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• noun a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel
  homebody.
  
• adjective satellite not given to travel
  
  • a stay-at-home friend

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• verb refer to or be relevant or familiar to
  strike a note; hit home; strike a chord.
  
  • I hope this message hits home!

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• verb earn as a salary or wage
  bring home.
  
  • How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?

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• adjective satellite (of salary or wages) remaining after all deductions including taxes
  

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• noun what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc
  

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• when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts.

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• to be conversant or familiar with it.

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• . (a) To bring to one's house. (b) To prove conclusively; as, to bring home a charge of treason. (c) To cause one to feel or appreciate by personal experience. (d) (Naut.) To lift of its place, as an anchor.

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• . (a) To retuen to one's house or family. (b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason. (b) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; said of an anchor.

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• (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular.

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• to be at one's ease.

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• to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim.

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• (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole.

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• to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.

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• (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.

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• to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect.

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• (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

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• noun a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation
  

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