Housing

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aÊŠzɪŋ

Origin

From Middle English housinge, howsynge, from Old English *hūsung ("housing"), from Old English hūsian ("to house, shelter; receive into one's house"), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing ("housing"), Dutch huizing, behuizing ("housing"), Low German husing, hüsing ("housing"), German Behausung ("housing").

Verb

1. Present participle of houseWe are housing the Wik* servers in Florida.

Full definition of housing

Noun

1. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
2. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.She lives in low-income housing.
3. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.The gears were grinding against their housing.
4. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
6. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
7. A niche for a statue.
8. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
9. (nautical) A houseline.

Synonyms

• (houses, collectively): accommodation, lodging
• (mechanical component's container): case, casing, cover, covering, lid