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Housing
//ˈhaʊzɪŋ// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. uncountable
- 2 stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse wordnet
- 3 Residences, collectively. uncountable
"She lives in low-income housing."
- 4 structures collectively in which people are housed wordnet
- 5 A mechanical component's container or covering. countable
"The gears were grinding against their housing."
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- 6 a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component wordnet
- 7 A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings. countable, uncountable
- 8 An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness. countable, uncountable
- 9 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. countable, uncountable
- 10 A niche for a statue. countable, uncountable
- 11 That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. countable, uncountable
- 12 A houseline. countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of house form-of, gerund, participle, present
"We are housing the company's servers in Florida."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).
Etymology 2
From house + -ing.
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