Housing vs Residence - What's the difference?
housing | residence |
(uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
(uncountable) Residences, collectively.
(countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
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.
The place where one lives.
* Macaulay
A building used as a home.
The place where a corporation is established.
The state of living in a particular place or environment.
* Sir M. Hale
The place where anything rests permanently.
* Milton
subsidence, as of a sediment
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
As nouns the difference between housing and residence
is that housing is the activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone while residence is the place where one lives.As a verb housing
is present participle of lang=en.housing
English
Verb
(head)- We are housing the Wik* servers in Florida.
Noun
- She lives in low-income housing .
- The gears were grinding against their housing .
Synonyms
* (houses, collectively ): accommodation, lodging * (mechanical component's container ): case, casing, cover, covering, lidSee also
* house ----residence
English
Noun
(en noun)- Johnson took up his residence in London.
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Jeremy Taylor)