Shack - English meaning

noun

(in scotland) a small hut or cottage, especially one for housing farm labourers or for use as a mountain refuge.

Usage examples:

In east kilbride, some of these lived in bothies on the farms, but most were based in the pow camp,…

noun

(in scotland) a small, simple building on a hill for walkers to shelter in, or one that is used on a farm for workers to live in

Usage examples:

Don't assume you will find a bothy to shelter in and walk into the wilderness without an alternative.

noun

A private room or compartment on a ship.

Usage examples:

She lay in her cabin on a steamer

verb

Confine within narrow bounds.

Usage examples:

Once loosed, the idea of equality is not easily cabined

noun

A separate space in an aircraft for passengers or for the people operating it, or a room on a ship equipped with beds for sleeping

Usage examples:

They gave us seats in the first-class cabin of the plane., we stayed in a cabin in the mountains fo…

verb

Live together and have a sexual relationship without being married.

Usage examples:

An increasing number of couples are cohabiting

verb

If two people, especially a man and woman who are not married, cohabit, they live together and have a sexual relationship

Usage examples:

About 23 percent of men and women aged 25 to 34 told researchers they had previously cohabited with…

noun

A brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.

Usage examples:

Rapidly growing populations in the favelas of the great urban centres

noun

A very poor and crowded area of a city in brazil

noun

An aboriginal bush hut, typically made of sheets of bark and branches.

Usage examples:

Expanding out into the surrounds, a composition of gunyahs or humpies - derived from a ‘fire dreami…

noun

A traditional navajo indian hut of logs and earth.

Usage examples:

A non-profit organization in arizona is using small-diameter wood to build traditional hogans for n…

noun

A small squalid or simply constructed dwelling.

Usage examples:

People were living in rat-infested hovels

noun

A small home, esp. one that is dirty and in bad condition

Usage examples:

Their house was little more than a hovel.

adjective

Humped in form; having a hump.

Usage examples:

Straddling a sharp turn of the wuyang river, its picturesque jumble of stone and concrete houses li…

noun

A makeshift hut.

Usage examples:

She wept in the tin humpy at the back of the store

adjective

Having a hump or humps (= large, round raised areas or parts)

Usage examples:

The narrow track wound its way through a humpy desert landscape., the humpy piles of rock and soil …

noun

A small, simple, single-storey house or shelter.

Usage examples:

A beach hut

verb

Provide with huts.

Usage examples:

It will be advisable to hut the troops, for their protection during the cold season

noun

A small, simple house or shelter

Usage examples:

A thatched hut

noun

A building joined to one of the sides of a larger building with which it shares one wall

Usage examples:

A house with a lean-to garage

phrasal verb

(especially of a couple not married to each other) share a home and have a sexual relationship.

Usage examples:

They eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years

phrasal verb

To share a home

Usage examples:

She and her sister live together in richmond.

adjective

Abbreviation for missing in action: used for saying that a member of the armed forces has not returned from fighting in a war but is not known for certain to be dead

Usage examples:

High numbers of military were still listed as mia., this is done routinely to identify the remains …

adjective

Abbreviation for missing in action: used for saying that a member of the armed forces has not returned from fighting in a war but is not known for certain to be dead

Usage examples:

High numbers of military were still listed as mia., this is done routinely to identify the remains …

adjective

Abbreviation for missing in action: used for saying that someone or something has disappeared and you do not know where they are

Usage examples:

Adam just went mia on nina and stopped answering her calls., brady told bob that his jersey was mia.

noun

A small, crudely built shack.

Usage examples:

They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub w…

noun

A song with alternating solo and chorus, of a kind originally sung by sailors while performing physical labour together.

Usage examples:

At copley, he also exhibited a continuous 80 slide projection, coupled with an audiotape, showing a…

noun

A small, badly built house, usually made from pieces of wood, metal, or cardboard, in which poor people live

Usage examples:

He lived in a little shanty in the desert, miles from anything else.

noun

A matter, operation, or set of circumstances.

Usage examples:

The mafia boss who's running the whole shebang

noun

The whole of something, including everything that is connected with it

Usage examples:

The wedding's next week, but my parents are taking care of the whole shebang.

noun

A simple roofed structure used for garden storage, to shelter animals, or as a workshop.

Usage examples:

A bicycle shed

verb

Park (a vehicle) in a depot.

Usage examples:

The buses were temporarily shedded in that depot

verb

(of a tree or other plant) allow (leaves or fruit) to fall to the ground.

Usage examples:

Both varieties shed leaves in winter

noun

A roughly constructed hut used while pasturing animals.

Usage examples:

There they lived in settlements of temporary huts called in ireland booleys (irish ‘buaile’, ‘cattl…

verb

Move or cause to move into a sloping position.

Usage examples:

The floor tilted slightly

noun

A sloping position or movement.

Usage examples:

The tilt of her head

verb

Lean over; tip

noun

A maori hut or house.

Usage examples:

By mid september there were than 2,000 people in the settlement, 250 good houses had been built, an…

noun

A hut consisting of an oval frame covered with brushwood or grass, formerly used by nomadic peoples in the western and south-western us.

Usage examples:

Then another full day to set up the tepee and the wickiup.

noun

A type of temporary home traditionally made by native americans in the southwestern us, which has an oval wood frame covered with grass, leaves, branches, animal skins, or cloth

Usage examples:

One of the traditional dwellings of apaches is the wickiup, which is a dwelling that can be made al…