housing: Meaning and Definition of

hous•ing

1. any shelter, lodging, or dwelling place.
2. houses collectively.
3. the act of one who houses or puts under shelter.
4. the providing of houses for a group or community: the housing of an influx of laborers.
5. anything that covers or protects.
6. a fully enclosed case and support for a mechanism.
7. the space made in one piece of wood, or the like, for the insertion of another.
1. Also calledbury.the portion of a mast below the deck.
2. Also calledbury.the portion of a bowsprit aft of the forward part of the stem of a vessel.
3. the doubling of an upper mast.
9. a niche for a statue.

hous•ing

1. a covering of cloth for the back and flanks of a horse or other animal, for protection or ornament.
2. the trappings on a horse.