Definitions for housing
housing
hous·ing
Spelling: [hou-zing]
IPA: /ˈhaʊ zɪŋ/
Housing is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 141 anagrams from letters in housing (ghinosu).
Definitions for housing
noun
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any shelter, lodging, or dwelling place.
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houses collectively.
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the act of one who houses or puts under shelter.
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the providing of houses for a group or community:
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anything that covers or protects.
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Machinery. a fully enclosed case and support for a mechanism.
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Carpentry. the space made in one piece of wood, or the like, for the insertion of another.
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Nautical.
Also called bury. the portion of a mast below the deck.
Also called bury. the portion of a bowsprit aft of the forward part of the stem of a vessel.
the doubling of an upper mast.
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a niche for a statue.
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a covering of cloth for the back and flanks of a horse or other animal, for protection or ornament.
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housings, the trappings on a horse.
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a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
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a household.
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(often initial capital letter) a family, including ancestors and descendants:
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a building for any purpose:
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a theater, concert hall, or auditorium:
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the audience of a theater or the like.
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a place of shelter for an animal, bird, etc.
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the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets.
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(initial capital letter) the body itself, especially of a bicameral legislature:
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a quorum of such a body.
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(often initial capital letter) a commercial establishment; business firm:
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a gambling casino.
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the management of a commercial establishment or of a gambling casino:
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an advisory or deliberative group, especially in church or college affairs.
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a college in an English-type university.
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a residential hall in a college or school; dormitory.
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the members or residents of any such residential hall.
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Informal. a brothel; whorehouse.
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British. a variety of lotto or bingo played with paper and pencil, especially by soldiers as a gambling game.
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Also called parish. Curling. the area enclosed by a circle 12 or 14 feet (3.7 or 4.2 meters) in diameter at each end of the rink, having the tee in the center.
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Nautical. any enclosed shelter above the weather deck of a vessel:
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Astrology. one of the 12 divisions of the celestial sphere, numbered counterclockwise from the point of the eastern horizon.
Idioms
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bring down the house, to call forth vigorous applause from an audience; be highly successful:
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clean house. clean (def 47).
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dress the house, Theater.
to fill a theater with many people admitted on free passes; paper the house.
to arrange or space the seating of patrons in such a way as to make an audience appear larger or a theater or nightclub more crowded than it actually is.
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keep house, to maintain a home; manage a household.
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like a house on fire / afire, very quickly; with energy or enthusiasm:
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on the house, as a gift from the management; free:
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put / set one's house in order,
to settle one's affairs.
to improve one's behavior or correct one's faults:
adjective
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of, relating to, or noting a house.
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for or suitable for a house:
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of or being a product made by or for a specific retailer and often sold under the store's own label:
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served by a restaurant as its customary brand:
verb (used with object)
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to put or receive into a house, dwelling, or living quarters:
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to give shelter to; harbor; lodge:
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to provide with a place to work, study, or the like:
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to provide storage space for; be a receptacle for or repository of:
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to remove from exposure; put in a safe place.
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Nautical.
to stow securely.
to lower (an upper mast) and make secure, as alongside the lower mast.
to heave (an anchor) home.
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Carpentry.
to fit the end or edge of (a board or the like) into a notch, hole, or groove.
to form (a joint) between two pieces of wood by fitting the end or edge of one into a dado of the other.
verb (used without object)
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to take shelter; dwell.
Origin of housing
First recorded in 1250-1300, housing is from the Middle English word husing. See house, -ing1
Examples for housing
Carefully, he settled it into its housing and bolted it down.
They keep their heads low while running behind a large curtain covering the opening between two housing blocks.
Like the financial sector, the housing industry is massively regulated in all sorts of ways.
One night in 2004, my college boyfriend called me from inside a closet in a north Toronto housing project.
The City Council said they wanted the housing property for park purposes.
The housing bubble was at very the center of the financial crisis that birthed Dodd-Frank.
Drastic improvements in housing, feeding, and sanitation in the towns themselves.
From the housing question to the dearth of servants we feel its baneful effects.
The towns can wait a little for their housing, the country cannot.
Cuomo made his own name by working on housing policy—but particularly urban housing policy.