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other usesSelfref|For Wikipedia's home page, see Main Page .distinguish|HouseRefimprove|date=May 2008A home is a place of residence or safety|refuge .cite web |url= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/home |title='Home' – Definitions from Dictionary.com |publisher= Dictionary.com |accessdate=2008-05-08 When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can live and store personal property . Most modern-day household s contain Sanitation|sanitary facilities and a means of Cooking|preparing food . Animals have their own homes as well, either living in the wild or shared with humans in a domesticated environment. "Home" is also used to refer to the geographical area (whether it be a suburb , town , city or country ) in which a person grew up or feels they belong, or it can refer to the native habitat of a wild animal. Sometimes, as an alternative to the definition of "home" as a physical locale ("Home is where you hang your hat "), home may be perceived to have no physical location, instead, home may relate instead to a mental or emotional state of refuge or comfort. Popular sayings along these lines are "Home is where the heart is" or "You can never go home again".
There are cultures in which member lack a permanent home, such as nomad|nomadic peoples.
Terminology
The word "home" can be used for various types of residential community institution s in which people can live, such as nursing home|nursing , retirement home s for seniors, prison s for criminals, treatment facilities, etc., and foster home s. A home is generally a place that is close to the heart of the owner, and can become a prized possession.
The word can also be used when certain characters come "home." The most usual example of this is Daddy. Upon arrival, Daddy would typically yell "Daaaaaaadddddddyyyyy's Home!".
In computer terminology, a 'home' may refer to a starting view that branches off into other tasks, e.g. a homepage or a Desktop environment|desktop . In a full screen editor , home is often used to mean the top-leftmost character cell , or the leftmost cell on a line in a line editor . These are the initial ones used by left-to-right languages. A standard 101-key PC keyboard contains a Home key. Many home pages on the with introductory information, recent news or events, and links to subpage s. "Home" may also refer to a home directory which contains the personal Computer file|files of a given User (computing)|user of the computer system.
Psychological impact
Since it can be said that humans are generally creatures of Habituation|habit , the state of a person's home has been known to physiologically influence their behavior , emotion s, and overall mental health.Citation needed|date=February 2008 The loss of a home (due to whatever reason, be it through accident or natural disaster, repossession , or in the case of children simply the decision to move on the part of the parents) can be a valid cause of Relocation (personal)|relocation .
Some people may become Homesickness|homesick when they leave their home over an extended period of time. Sometimes homesickness can cause a person to feel actual symptoms of illness.
It has been argued that psychologically "The strongest sense of home commonly coincides geographically with a dwelling. Usually the sense of home attenuates as one moves away from that point, but it does not do so in a fixed or regular way."Theankbj;j o S. Terkenli. 1995. "Home as a Region." Geographical Review. 85.3: 324-334. Furthermore, places like homes can trigger self-reflection, thoughts about who someone is or used to be or who they might become. These types of reflections also occur in places where there is a collective historical identity, such as Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg or Ground Zero .Douglas Burton-Christie. 2009. "Place-Making as Contemplative Practice." Anglican Theological Reviews 91.3: 347-371.
