housing

English Online Dictionary. What means housing‎? What does housing mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊzɪŋ/, /ˈhaʊsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ, -aʊsɪŋ

Etymology 1

From house +‎ -ing.

Verb

housing

1. present participle and gerund of house

Etymology 2

From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”); compare Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”).

Noun

housing (countable and uncountable, plural housings)

1. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
2. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.

3. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.

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

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See also

• house

French

Noun

housing m (plural housings)

1. (computing) colocation; A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity