housing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Residences, collectively.

   She lives in low-income housing.

2. 2
   noun

   A mechanical component's container or covering.

   The gears were grinding against their housing.

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of house

   We are housing the company's servers in Florida.

4. 4
   noun

   stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

5. 5
   noun

   structures collectively in which people are housed

6. 6
   noun

   a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

7. 7
   noun

   The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

8. 8
   noun

   A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

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”).