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Verb (Used With Object) : Concert
Verb (Used With Object) : Concert
Verb (Used With Object) : Concert
a. to stow securely.
b. to lower (an upper mast) and make secure, as alongside the lowermast.
c. to heave (an anchor) home.
29.
Carpentry.
a. to fit the end or edge of (a board or the like) into a notch, hole, orgroove.
b. to form (a joint) between two pieces of wood by fitting the end oredge of one into a dado of
the other.
32.
for or suitable for a house:
house paint.
33.
of or being a product made by or for a specific retailer and often soldunder the store's own l
abel:
You'll save money on the radio if you buy the house brand.
34.
served by a restaurant as its customary brand:
the house wine.
Idioms
35.
bring down the house, to call forth vigorous applause from anaudience; be highly successf
ul:
The children's performances brought down the house.
36.
clean house. clean (def 47).
37.
dress the house, Theater.
a. to fill a theater with many people admitted on free passes; paperthe house.
b. to arrange or space the seating of patrons in such a way as tomake an audience appear large
r or a theater or nightclub morecrowded than it actually is.
38.
keep house, to maintain a home; manage a household.
39.
like a house on fire /afire, very quickly; with energy orenthusiasm:
The new product took off like a house on fire.
40.
on the house, as a gift from the management; free:
Tonight the drinks are on the house.
41.
put /set one's house in order,