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A home is a place of residence
Residence

The term residence may refer to:* House* Home* Nursing home* Residence in English family law, pertaining to where children should live in the case of disputes...
 or refuge
Refuge

Refuge is a place or state of safety. Refuge may also refer to:...
. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property
Personal property

Personal property is a type of property. In the common law systems personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. It is distinguished from real property, or real estate....
. Most modern-day household
Household

The household is "the basic residential unit in which production , consumption , inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonomous with family"....
s contain sanitary facilities
Sanitation

Sanitation is the hygienic means of preventing human contact from the hazards of wastes to promote health. Hazards can be either physical, microbiological, biological or chemical agents of disease....
 and a means of preparing food
Cooking

Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible food....
. Animals have their own homes as well, living either in the wild or in a domesticated environment.

There are certain cultures in which members lack permanent homes, such as with nomad
Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ic people.

e a house
House

A house generally refers to a or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by humans. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings....
 or a residential dwelling
List of house types

House can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or Single-family detached home and various types of attached or Multi-family residential....
 is often referred to as a "home", the concept of "home" expresses itself upon a much broader denotation of a physical dwelling.






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A home is a place of residence
Residence

The term residence may refer to:* House* Home* Nursing home* Residence in English family law, pertaining to where children should live in the case of disputes...
 or refuge
Refuge

Refuge is a place or state of safety. Refuge may also refer to:...
. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property
Personal property

Personal property is a type of property. In the common law systems personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. It is distinguished from real property, or real estate....
. Most modern-day household
Household

The household is "the basic residential unit in which production , consumption , inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonomous with family"....
s contain sanitary facilities
Sanitation

Sanitation is the hygienic means of preventing human contact from the hazards of wastes to promote health. Hazards can be either physical, microbiological, biological or chemical agents of disease....
 and a means of preparing food
Cooking

Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible food....
. Animals have their own homes as well, living either in the wild or in a domesticated environment.

There are certain cultures in which members lack permanent homes, such as with nomad
Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ic people.

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While a house
House

A house generally refers to a or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by humans. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings....
 or a residential dwelling
List of house types

House can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or Single-family detached home and various types of attached or Multi-family residential....
 is often referred to as a "home", the concept of "home" expresses itself upon a much broader denotation of a physical dwelling. Many people think of home in terms of where they grew up or where they lived, a place that brings back old memories or feelings, and a home can even be a time rather than an actual place. Some people like using the phrase, "There's no place like home".

The word "home" can be used for various types of residential institution
Institution

Institutions are social structure and social mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals. Institutions are identified with a social purpose and permanence, transcending individual human lives and intentions, and with the making and enforcing of rules governing cooperative human behavior....
s in which people can live in, such as nursing home
Nursing home

A nursing home, skilled nursing facility , or skilled nursing unit , also known as a rest home, is a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living....
s, group home
Group Home

Group Home is a Hip hop music duo, comprised of members Lil' Dap and Melachi the Nutcracker. They came to prominence as members of the Gang Starr Foundation....
s (orphanage
Orphanage

An orphanage is an institution devoted to the Childcare whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable to care for them. Parents, and sometimes grandparents, are legally responsible for supporting children, but in the absence of these or other relatives willing to care for the children, they become a ward of the state, and orphanages are a w...
s for children, retirement home
Retirement home

A retirement home is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly. The usual pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms....
s for seniors, prison
Prison

A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or internment and usually deprived of a range of personal Freedom ....
s for criminals, treatment facilities, etc.), and foster homes.

In computer terminology, a 'home' is a starting view that branches off into other tasks,such as eating or biteing e.g. a homepage
Homepage

The homepage is the Uniform Resource Locator or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts and when the browser's "home" button is pressed....
 or a desktop
Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today....
. Many such home pages on the internet start with introductory information, recent news or events, and links to subpage
Subpage

A subpage usually refers to a lower level web page in a website or wiki with the same main name as the starting level page plus a Slash and text identifying the location of the subpage....
s.

Psychological impact

Since it can be said that humans are generally creatures of habit
Habituation

In psychology, habituation is the psychological process in humans and animals in which there is a decrease in behavior response to a stimulus after repeated exposure to that stimulus over a duration of time....
, the state of a person's home has been known to physiologically influence their behavior
Behavior

Behavior or behaviour refers to the action s or reactions of an object or organism, usually in Relational theory to the environment. Behavior can be conscious or Unconscious mind, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary....
, emotions, and overall mental health.

Some people may become homesick
Homesickness

Homesickness is the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from the specific home social environment or attachment objects....
 when they leave their home over an extended period of time. Being homesick can sometimes actually cause you to get symptoms of being ill but not really being sick.

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