house

maison

Bâtiment où habite une personne ou une famille.

En anglais simple : A building where a person or family lives.

• We live in a small house.
• They bought a house near the school.
• How many bedrooms does your house have?

Synonymes : home

Expressions courantes : buy a house, small house, house with a garden

house

Style de musique électronique pour danser, avec un rythme marqué et régulier.

En anglais simple : A type of electronic dance music with a strong, regular beat.

• The DJ played house all night.
• She makes house music on her laptop.
• This club is famous for its house nights.

Expressions courantes : house music, house track, deep house

maison

Entreprise, notamment dans l’édition de livres ou la création de vêtements de mode.

En anglais simple : A company, especially one that publishes books or creates fashionable clothes.

• She works for a publishing house.
• The fashion house launched a new collection.
• Several publishing houses rejected his first novel.

Synonymes : company, firm

Expressions courantes : publishing house, fashion house, design house

maison, établissement

Commerce qui accueille des clients ou propose des divertissements, ou les personnes qui le dirigent.

En anglais simple : A business serving guests or providing entertainment, or the people who run it.

• Dessert is on the house.
• The house reserves the right to refuse service.
• We chose the house wine with our meal.

Comment l'utiliser : on the house (The manager said our drinks were on the house.)

Synonymes : establishment, management

Expressions courantes : on the house, house rules, house wine

abriter, contenir

Garder ou contenir quelque chose dans un bâtiment ou un contenant.

En anglais simple : To keep or contain something inside a building or container.

• The museum houses an art collection.
• They housed the equipment in a dry shed.
• The old factory now houses a library.

Comment l'utiliser : house something in something (They house the records in a secure building.); be housed in something (The collection is housed in the old library.)

Synonymes : contain, hold, store

Expressions courantes : house a collection, house equipment, house something inside

loger, héberger

Fournir à quelqu’un un endroit où vivre.

En anglais simple : To provide someone with a place to live.

• The shelter houses twenty people.
• They housed the students in a nearby hostel.
• Where will the displaced families be housed?

Comment l'utiliser : house someone in something (The council housed the families in empty apartments.)

Synonymes : accommodate, shelter

Expressions courantes : house homeless people, house refugees, house someone temporarily

loger, enfermer

Entourer et protéger les pièces actives d’une machine avec un couvercle ou un boîtier.

En anglais simple : To surround and protect the working parts of a machine with a cover or case.

• The plastic case houses the motor.
• They housed the gears in a steel box.
• All moving parts are housed inside the machine's protective cover.

Comment l'utiliser : be housed in something (The gears are housed in a metal casing.)

Synonymes : enclose, encase

Expressions courantes : house the motor, house mechanical parts, house the gears