 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
housing
noun
1: housing structures collectively; structures in which people
are housed [syn: {lodging}, {living accommodations}]
2: a protective cover designed to contain or support a
mechanical component
3: stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse,
especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: {caparison}, {trapping},
{trappings}, {housings}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
House \House\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Housed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Housing}.] [AS. h?sian.]
1. To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to
cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by
covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home;
to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
At length have housed me in a humble shed. --Young.
House your choicest carnations, or rather set them
under a penthouse. --Evelyn.
2. To drive to a shelter. --Shak.
3. To admit to residence; to harbor.
Palladius wished him to house all the Helots. --Sir
P. Sidney.
4. To deposit and cover, as in the grave. --Sandys.
5. (Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make
safe; as, to house the upper spars.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Houseline \House"line'\, noun (Naut.)
A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called
also {housing}. --Totten.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Housing \Hous"ing\, noun [From {House}. In some of its senses this
word has been confused with the following word.]
1. The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state
of dwelling in a habitation.
2. That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
--Fabyan.
3. (Arch.)
(a) The space taken out of one solid, to admit the
insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber
in the side of another.
(b) A niche for a statue.
4. (Mach.) A frame or support for holding something in place,
such as a piece of machinery, journal boxes, etc.
5. (Naut.)
(a) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath
the deck or within the vessel.
(b) A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck
of a ship when laid up.
(c) A houseline. See {Houseline}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Housing \Hous"ing\, noun [From {Houss}.]
1. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or
military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in
plural, trappings.
2. An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "housing":
accommodation, accommodations, architectonic, architectural,
assembly-line housing, berth, billeting, blanket, box, building,
cabinet, caparison, case, casing, chassis, cloak, coat, console,
constructional, container, cover, coverage, covering, covert,
coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, diggings, digs, dock,
domiciliation, doss, drape, drapery, dwelling, edificial,
enclosure, guise, habitation, hangar, hanging, home, homes, hood,
horse blanket, horsecloth, hospitality, houses, housing bill,
housing development, housing problem, living, living quarters,
lodging, lodgings, lodgment, lower-income housing, mantle, mask,
pall, protection, quartering, quarters, radio, radio receiver,
radio set, radio telescope, receiver, receiving set, rooms, roost,
saddle blanket, saddlecloth, screen, set, shed, shelter, shield,
shroud, sleeping place, slum clearance, structural, subdivision,
tract, transient lodging, urban renewal, veil, vestment, wireless,
wireless set
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