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Housing vs Dwelling - What's the difference?

housing | dwelling |

As verbs the difference between housing and dwelling

is that housing is present participle of lang=en while dwelling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between housing and dwelling

is that housing is the activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone while dwelling is a habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.

housing

English

Verb

(head)
    • We are housing the Wik* servers in Florida.

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
  • (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
    • She lives in low-income housing .
  • (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
    • The gears were grinding against their housing .
  • A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
  • An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
  • (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.
  • A niche for a statue.
  • (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
  • (nautical) A houseline.

    • Synonyms

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

    See also

    * house ----

    dwelling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dwelling, . More at dwell.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings . The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
    The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
    Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. -
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * dwellinghouse * dwelling place * lake dwelling: prehistoric structure
    References
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    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
    • I was dwelling in the cave.