Housing vs Housings - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between housing and housings

is that housing is (uncountable) the activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone while housings is .

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We are housing the Wik* servers in Florida.

(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.

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

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