The difference between Accommodate and House

When used as verbs, accommodate means to render fit, suitable, or correspondent, whereas house means to keep within a structure or container.


Accommodate is also adjective with the meaning: suitable.

House is also noun with the meaning: a structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

check bellow for the other definitions of Accommodate and House

  1. Accommodate as a verb (transitive, often, reflexive):

    To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: adapt conform adjust arrange suit"

    "to accommodate ourselves to circumstances"

  2. Accommodate as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: reconcile"

    "to accommodate differences"

  3. Accommodate as a verb (transitive):

    To provide housing for.

    Examples:

    "to accommodate an old friend for a week"

  4. Accommodate as a verb (transitive):

    To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

    Examples:

    "to accommodate a friend with a loan"

  5. Accommodate as a verb (transitive):

    To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: oblige"

  6. Accommodate as a verb (transitive):

    To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.

    Examples:

    "to accommodate prophecy to events"

  7. Accommodate as a verb (transitive):

    To give consideration to; to allow for.

  8. Accommodate as a verb (transitive):

    To contain comfortably; to have space for.

    Examples:

    "This venue accommodates three hundred people."

  9. Accommodate as a verb (intransitive, rare):

    To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.

  1. Accommodate as an adjective (obsolete):

    Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

  1. House as a noun:

    A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

    Examples:

    "This is my house and my family's ancestral home."

  2. House as a noun:

    The people who live in a house; a household.

  3. House as a noun:

    A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.

    Examples:

    "The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house."

    "On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the [[monkey house monkey house]]."

    "A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house."

    "One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid."

    "The house always wins."

  4. House as a noun:

    The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

    Examples:

    "After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house."

  5. House as a noun (politics):

    A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

    Examples:

    "The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate."

  6. House as a noun:

    A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

    Examples:

    "A curse lay upon the House of Atreus."

  7. House as a noun (metaphorical):

    a place of rest or repose.

  8. House as a noun:

    A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

    Examples:

    "I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school."

  9. House as a noun:

    An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

  10. House as a noun (astrology):

    One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

  11. House as a noun (cartomancy):

    The fourth Lenormand card.

  12. House as a noun (chess, now, rare):

    A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

  13. House as a noun (curling):

    The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

  14. House as a noun:

    Lotto; bingo.

  15. House as a noun (uncountable):

    A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

    Examples:

    "As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house."

  16. House as a noun (US, dialect):

    A small stand of trees in a swamp.

  1. House as a verb (transitive):

    To keep within a structure or container.

    Examples:

    "The car is housed in the garage."

  2. House as a verb (transitive):

    To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.

  3. House as a verb:

    To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

  4. House as a verb (transitive, astrology):

    To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

  5. House as a verb (transitive):

    To contain or cover mechanical parts.

  6. House as a verb (obsolete):

    To drive to a shelter.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  7. House as a verb (obsolete):

    To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sandys"

  8. House as a verb (nautical):

    To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

    Examples:

    "to house the upper spars"

  1. House as a noun (music genre):

    House music.