housing
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
housing1
▶noun
- 1 houses and flats considered collectively.
■ the provision of accommodation.
- 2 a rigid casing that houses a piece of moving or delicate equipment.
- 3 a recess or groove cut in a piece of wood to allow another piece to be attached to it.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
housing2
▶noun archaic a cloth covering put on a horse for protection or ornament.
– origin ME: from OFr. houce, from med. L. hultia, of Gmc origin.
'housing' also found in these Oxford entries:
acute
- ark
- barbette
- barn
- binnacle
- boathouse
- brick
- cabinet
- capitol
- council
- development
- fuse box
- garage
- Genizah
- hangar
- hawsepipe
- health centre
- housing estate
- kremlin
- mausoleum
- novitiate
- observatory
- project
- public housing
- rehouse
- rookery
- sheltered housing
- sink
- social housing
- social service
- stable
- subdivision
- tail fin
- telephone box
- tract house
- waiting list
