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Housing   /hˈaʊzɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Housing  n.  
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.
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.


Housing  n.  
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.


verb
House  v. t.  (past & past part. housed; pres. part. housing)  
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." "House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse."
2.
To drive to a shelter.
3.
To admit to residence; to harbor. "Palladius wished him to house all the Helots."
4.
To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
5.
(Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.


House  v. i.  
1.
To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge. "You shall not house with me."
2.
(Astrol.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. "Where Saturn houses."





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"Housing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rooms of state were set apart for public audiences and for council meetings. In fact, the building was not only a King's dwelling-place, but the administrative centre of a whole empire, and within its walls there was room for the offices of the various departments and for the housing of their records. ...
— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie
... the rural civil service will also no doubt insist on having offices comparable with the vast hotels which their parent bodies occupy in London. But this will not account for nearly all the ancestral seats, and, in calling the attention of the Minister of Health and Housing to this little memorandum of mine, I would specially urge him to note how it will solve some of the most difficult ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 21, 1920 • Various
... article in the National Review concerning the inadequacy of our present solution of the housing problem; but ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole
... hill dwellers. A race must be hardy as the ragweed when it could not be exterminated even by its own patient effort. The tenantry of the flatlands might be excused for believing that a special Providence intended it to survive, despite poverty, malnutrition, bad housing and wasting disease ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... flickered with bright metal, varnish, snowy celluloid. The body of the machine looked capable of housing twice as many men as the Legion numbered. But everything, after all, was quite shrunk by the overpowering sweep of the wings. These dwarfed the fast-gathering group that stood peering up at them, like pygmies under ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England


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