housing
Plural: housings
Noun
- Any dwelling place; providing shelter or accommodation.
- structures collectively in which people are housed
- a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component
- stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse
- The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
- Residences, collectively.
- A mechanical component's container or covering.
- A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
- An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
- 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.
- A niche for a statue.
- That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
- A houseline.
Verb
- contain or cover
- provide housing for
- present participle and gerund of house
Examples
- Finding adequate HOUSING for all seven tiles on the board proved challenging.
- She lives in low-income housing.
- The gears were grinding against their housing.
- We are housing the company's servers in Florida.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
caparison, domiciliate, house, living accommodations, lodging, put up, trapping, accommodation, case, casing, cover, covering, lid
Scrabble Score: 11
housing: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhousing: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
housing: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary