different between housing vs quartering

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?z??/
• Rhymes: -a?z??
• Rhymes: -a?s??

Etymology 1

From house +? -ing.

Verb

housing

1. present participle of house

   We are housing the company's servers in Florida.

Etymology 2

From Middle English housyng, housinge, howsynge, from Old English *h?sung (“housing”), from Old English h?sian (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house +? -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”).

Noun

housing (countable and uncountable, plural housings)

1. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
2. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.

   She lives in low-income housing.

3. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.

   The gears were grinding against their housing.

4. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
6. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
7. A niche for a statue.
8. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
9. (nautical) A houseline.

Synonyms

• (houses, collectively): accommodation, lodging
• (mechanical component's container): case, casing, cover, covering, lid

Derived terms

• bell housing, bellhousing
• housing stock

Translations

See also

• house

French

Noun

housing m (plural housings)

1. (computing) colocation; A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity.

English

Verb

quartering

1. present participle of quarter

Noun

quartering (plural quarterings)

1. A division into four parts.
   • 1994, David C. Schneider, Quantitative Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Scaling (page 36)

     Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.

2. The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
3. The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
4. (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
5. (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
6. (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
7. (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
8. (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.

Translations

Adjective

quartering (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
2. (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
3. (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.