housing

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. uncountable
  2. Residences, collectively. uncountable
    — She lives in low-income housing.
  3. A mechanical component's container or covering. countable
    — 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. countable,uncountable
  5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness. countable,uncountable
  6. 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. countable,uncountable
  7. A niche for a statue. countable,uncountable
  8. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. countable,uncountable
  9. A houseline. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of house form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — We are housing the company's servers in Florida.

词形变化

housings plural

词汇关系

反义词
nonhousing
衍生词
affordable housing bell housing bellhousing cohousing council housing ecohousing inclusionary housing microhousing open housing public housing social housing subsidized housing tract housing housing bubble housing commission housing estate housing project housing stock housing unit houso security housing unit

词源

词源 1
From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).
词源 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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