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A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types.Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings.
A girder or main "summer beam" of a floor: if supported on two storey posts and open below, also called a "bress" or "breast-summer". Often found at the centerline of the house to support one end of a joist, and to bear the weight of the structure above. [83] Spandrel 1.
House uniform colours at Lenana School in Nairobi, Kenya. The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the United Kingdom. The practice has since spread to Commonwealth countries. The school is divided into units called "houses" and each student is allocated to one house at the moment of enrollment.
Also called the house or the bank, the person responsible for distributing chips, keeping track of the buy-ins, and paying winners at the end of a banking game. A dealer against whom the punters bet. [11] [3] banking game A less-skilled card game of the gambling type in which one or more punters play against a banker, who controls the game. [12 ...
U.S. existing home sales dropped more than expected in January after three straight monthly increases as high mortgage rates and house prices stifled demand. Home sales decreased 4.9% last month ...
Many Western words entered Arabic through Ottoman Turkish as Turkish was the main language for transmitting Western ideas into the Arab world. There are about 3,000 Turkish borrowings in Syrian Arabic, mostly in administration and government, army and war, crafts and tools, house and household, dress, and food and dishes. [24] [25]
short for public house (US: bar) publican the landlord of a public house. pud (informal) short for "pudding", which may mean dessert or occasionally a savoury item such as Yorkshire pudding or black pudding; a fool (informal term usually used good-naturedly between family members). pulling his pud, means male masturbation by a "pudknocker". pukka
House Republicans are calling for hearings to allow law enforcement, city officials and impacted community members to testify to determine the impact, including how much is the open door policy ...