home

1.where you live at a particular time;

deliver the package to my home

2.housing that someone is living in;

he built a modest dwelling near the pond

3.the country or state or city where you live;

Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home

4.an environment offering affection and security;

home is where the heart is

5.an institution where people are cared for;

a home for the elderly

6.the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

7.a social unit living together;

he moved his family to Virginia

8.(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score;

he ruled that the runner failed to touch home

9.place where something began and flourished;

the United States is the home of basketball

10.used of your own ground;

a home game

11.relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are;

my home town

12.inside the country;

the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior

13.at or to or in the direction of one's home or family;

He stays home on weekends

14.on or to the point aimed at;

the arrow struck home

15.to the fullest extent; to the heart;

drove the nail home

1.provide with, or send to, a home

2.return home accurately from a long distance;

homing pigeons

1.I got a little bit of a raise this year，but it was nothing to write home about.

今年我得到一点提升，但并不值得一提。

2.His pitch was nothing to write home about.

他的情况不十分好。