different between housing vs sheltering

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

sheltering

1. present participle of shelter

Noun

sheltering (plural shelterings)

1. A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.
   • 1892, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (volume 2, page 668)

     The result was most satisfactory, as I succeeded, with Mr. Morgan's kind assistance, in securing a considerable number of larvae living beneath shelterings formed of coccid remains, which I felt sure must be the early stage of a Thalpochares.

Anagrams

• lighteners, threelings