HOUSINGとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From house +‎ -ing.

動詞

housing

1. present participle of house

   We are housing the company's servers in Florida.

語源 2

From Middle English housyng, housinge, howsynge, from 古期英語 *hūsung (“housing”), from 古期英語 hūsian (“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”).

名詞

housing (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

同意語

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

派生語

• bell housing, bellhousing
• housing stock