housing
pronunciation
How to pronounce housing in British English:
UK [ˈhaʊzɪŋ]
How to pronounce housing in American English:
US [ˈhaʊzɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- housing structures collectively; structures in which people are housed
- a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component
- stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse
Word Origin
- housing (n.1)
- "buildings, lodgings," early 14c., husing, from the root of house (n.).
- housing (n.2)
- "ornamental covering," c. 1300, houce "covering for the back and flanks of a horse," from Old French houce "mantle, horse-blanket" (Modern French housse), from Medieval Latin hultia "protective covering," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hulfti (cognates: Middle Dutch hulfte "pocket for bow and arrow," Middle High German hulft "covering"), from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). Sense of "case or enclosure for machine or part" is first recorded 1882.
Example
- 1. Housing and auto markets are stabilizing .
- 2. Housing suffers from two further weaknesses as an investment .
- 3. Retention ponds will serve as scenic elements for high-end housing .
- 4. Go through the hole in the housing , if necessary .
- 5. As the housing market stalls , most economists are expecting output to slow .