housing

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhaʊzɪŋ/, /ˈhaʊsɪŋ/ Rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ, -aʊsɪŋ === 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”). ==== Noun ==== housing (countable and uncountable, plural housings) (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. (uncountable) Residences, collectively. (countable) 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. (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. A niche for a statue. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. (nautical) A houseline. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From house +‎ -ing. ==== Verb ==== housing present participle and gerund of house ===== Synonyms ===== (houses, collectively): accommodation, lodging (mechanical component's container): case, casing, cover, covering, lid ===== Translations ===== === See also === house == French == === Noun === housing m (plural housings) (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