car sickness (medicine) and home(2) (iou)

car sickness (medicine)

car sickness

A form of motion sickness caused by riding on a train or in an automobile or bus.

Home noun & adjective.
[Old English ham, corresp. to Old Frisian ham, hem, Old Saxon hem (Dutch heem), Old & mod. High German heim, Old Norse heimr, Gothic haims, from Germanic.]
A. noun.
A collection of dwellings; a village, a town. OE-ME.
The place where one lives permanently, esp. as a member of a family or household; a fixed place of residence. Freq. without article or possessive, esp. as representing the centre of family life. OE.
holiday Home, Mobile Home, motor Home, etc.
G. B. Shaw When their business compels them to be away from Home. Lyndon B. Johnson Every family in America deserves a decent Home, whether a farmhouse or a city apartment. M. Ignatieff Home is the place we have to leave in order to grow up. G. Stein Stray dogs and cats Anna always kept until she found them homes.
b. The family or social unit occupying a Home. Freq. with descriptive adjective, as broken Home, happy Home. L19.
c. The furniture or contents of a Home. L19.
d. A private house, a dwelling-house. Chiefly N. Amer., Austral., NZ, & S. Afr. L19.
N. Mailer Now he had a Home instead of an apartment.
Usu. without article or possessive: (an affectionate term for) the country of one's origin; esp. Great Britain or England regarded as the mother country among citizens living abroad or (now arch. or Hist.) inhabitants of what were in the past its colonies or dependencies. ME.
S. Harvester Members could..sit quiet under lazy fans while they read the latest newspapers..from Home.
A place or region to which one naturally belongs or where one feels at ease. Also spiritual Home. M16.
Contemporary Review In the Church of England he found a satisfying Home.
A place where a thing flourishes or from which it originates. E18.
M. Arnold Oxford...Home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs!
An institution looking after people etc. who need care or have no Home of their own. M19.
convalescent Home, dogs' Home, mental Home, nursing Home, old people's Home, etc.
G. Stein They sent her where she would be taken care of, a Home for poor consumptives.
b. spec. Such an institution for mentally ill or mentally handicapped people. colloq. M20.
A. McCowen His brain collapsed and he finished his days in a Home.
Sports & Games. An area where a player is free from attack. Also, the point aimed at, the goal. M19.
Lacrosse. Each of the three players stationed nearest their opponents' goal. M19.
ellipt. A Home win. L20.
Phrases: at Home (a) in one's own Home; one's neighbourhood, town, country, etc.; arch. in the mother-country, in Britain; (b) at ease as if in one's own Home; well-informed, familiar (in, on, with); (c) available to callers; see also AT-Home noun; (d) on a team's own ground (opp. away). close to Home = near Home below. eat out of house and Home: see EAT verb. hearth and Home: see HEARTH noun. Home away from Home N. Amer. & Austral. = Home from Home below. Home from Home a place Other than one's Home where one feels at Home; a place providing homelike amenities. house and Home: see HOUSE noun1. last Home: see LAST adjective. long Home: see LONG adjective1. near Home near one's Home, country, etc.; fig. affecting one closely. not at Home: see NOT adverb. second Home: see SECOND adjective. STARTER Home. STATELY Home. to Home dial. & US at Home. walk Home: see WALK verb1.
b. attrib. or as adjective (freq. hyphenated, not pred. except formerly in sense 3).
Of, relating to, or associated with (one's) Home, domestic; used, performed, carried on, etc., at Home. M16.
Home comforts, Home computer, Home Cooking, etc.
S. Smiles Its citizens had no true family or Home life. I. Novello Keep the Home-fires burning.
b. Adjoining or surrounding one's Home, or the chief house on an estate. M17.
A. Trollope An inner gate, leading from the Home paddock, through the gardens.
Relating to, produced or carried on in, originating from, one's country or nation. Opp. foreign. L16.
Home industry, Home market, Home produce, etc.
Time Entente Cordiale..was probably intended as French propaganda for Home consumption. H. Williamson The least we civilians can do is to hold the Home Front.
b. Dealing with the affairs of one's own country (opp. those of foreign countries) or (chiefly Hist.) with the mother country (opp. its colonies). L18.
Listener The Ministry of Defence is classified as a Home rather than an 'overseas' department.
c. Of a team, player, etc.: belonging to the country, locality, etc., in which a sporting event takes place. Of a match, victory, etc.: played, experienced, etc., by a team on its own ground. L19.
Times The biggest single event of the British season will bring together five Home riders, four Danes, three Swedes.
That strikes Home; searching, effective. (Passing into adverb.) E17.
Horace Walpole That negociation not succeeding, the Duchess made a more Home push.
Sports & Games. Of, pertaining to, or situated at or near Home (sense A.7 above); reaching or enabling a player to reach Home. M19.
Comb. & special collocations: With ppl adjectives in sense '(for use) at Home', as Home-baked, Home-based, Home-born, Home-brewed, Home-cured [CURE verb 8], Home-produced. Home base = Home plate below; Home-bird, homebody a person who likes to stay at Home; homeboy (orig. & chiefly Black English) (a) a man coming from the same district, town, or community as the speaker; (b) a performer of rap Music; Home-bred adjective (a) reared at Home; indigenous; (b) fig. having no culture or breadth of experience; Home-brew (a) beer or Other alcoholic drink brewed at Home; (b) Canad. a player of professional Football etc. born or brought up where his team is based; Home Counties the counties (esp. Surrey, Kent, Essex, and formerly Middlesex) closest to London; Home Economics the study of household Management, domestic science; Home economist a student of or specialist in Home Economics; Home farm a farm reserved and worked by the owner of an estate which contains Other farms; Home-felt adjective felt intimately; homefolks colloq. (chiefly US) the people from or near one's Home, one's family and neighbours; homegirl (orig. & chiefly Black English) (a) a woman coming from the same district, town, or community as the speaker; (b) a female performer of rap Music; Home-grown adjective raised or cultivated on one's own land; fig. native, indigenous; Home guard (a member of) a local volunteer force; spec. (with cap. initials) (a member of) the British citizen army organized 1940-57 to defend the country against invaders; Home help a person who helps with household work, spec. one deputed by a local authority to assist an elderly or infirm person; Home-keeping adjective that stays at or takes care of a Home; Home key Music the basic key in which a work is written; homeland (a) one's native land; esp. Great Britain; (b) S. Afr. History an area reserved for members of a particular (indigenous African) ethnic or linguistic group (the official name for a Bantustan); Home language one's native language; Home-leave leave, esp. long leave, granted to officials etc. serving overseas; Home loan: advanced to a person to assist in buying a house, flat, etc., to live in; Home-lot US a building-plot; Home-made adjective made in one's own Home or by one's own hands; crude or simple in construction; Home-maker a person, esp. a housewife, who creates a (pleasant) Home; Home-making the activity of a Home-maker; Home movie: made at Home or showing the activities of one's family circle; Home Office (the building used for) the British government department dealing with law and order, immigration, etc., in England and Wales; Home-owner a person who owns his or her Home; Home page Computing an individual's or organization's introductory document on the World Wide Web; Home perm a permanent hair-wave made with equipment for Home use; Home plate: see PLATE noun 15; Home port: from which a ship sails or is registered; Home range Zoology the area over which an animal regularly travels in search of Food etc., and which may overlap with those of neighbouring animals of the same species (cf. TERRITORY 1d); homeroom N. Amer. a schoolroom where pupils of the same grade assemble at the beginning of school; Home rule (a movement for) the government of a colony, dependent country, etc., by its own citizens; spec. (with cap. initials) the movement advocating devolved government for Ireland, c 1870-1914; Home run Baseball a hit that allows the batter to make a complete circuit of the bases; Home science (chiefly NZ) Home Economics, domestic science; Home Secretary (in Britain) the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the government minister in charge of the Home Office; Home Service Hist. one of the programme Services of the BBC (renamed Radio 4); homesick adjective depressed by a longing for Home during an absence from it; homesickness the condition of being homesick; Home signal: indicating whether or not a train may proceed into a station or to the next section of a line; homesite (chiefly N. Amer., Austral., & NZ) a building-plot; Home straight, (N. Amer.) Home stretch the concluding stretch of a racecourse; Home thrust Fencing (now rare) a thrust which reaches the mark aimed at; fig. a direct remark or criticism which touches a person's feelings or consciousness; Home town: of one's birth or early life or present fixed residence; Home truth a wounding mention of a person's weakness; Home unit: see UNIT noun1 7; homework work (to be) done at Home; esp. lessons done at Home by a schoolchild (do one's homework (fig.), brief oneself before a meeting etc.).

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