Shelter

Shelter can refer to several things:

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• A place that protects, to a larger or smaller extent, against some or all of the following:
• the weather (precipitation, wind, heat, cold)
• intruding humans and animals, etc.

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• A place in which people live, a house.
• A place of refuge, such as a women's shelter for abused women or a homeless shelter for vagrants.
• A shortened name for an animal shelter, which usually houses stray pets.
• A place to stand or sit when:
• waiting at public transport stops for a bus (bus shelter), tram (tram stop), train (shelter on a railway platform), taxi (taxi stand), ferryboat / water taxi, etc.
• having a cigarette.
• War related
• Air-raid shelter
• Fallout shelter
• Blast shelter
• A mountain shelter
• Shelter (charity) is a British charity campaigning to end homelessness and bad housing.
• Shelter (band) is a hardcore Hare Krishna band.