The difference between Covering and Housing

When used as nouns, covering means that which covers something, whereas housing means the activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.


check bellow for the other definitions of Covering and Housing

  1. Covering as a noun (countable):

    That which covers something.

  2. Covering as a noun (uncountable):

    Action of the verb to cover.

  1. Covering as a verb:

  1. Housing as a verb:

    Examples:

    "We are housing the company's servers in Florida."

  1. Housing as a noun (uncountable):

    The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

  2. Housing as a noun (uncountable):

    Residences, collectively.

    Examples:

    "She lives in low-income housing."

  3. Housing as a noun (countable):

    A mechanical component's container or covering.

    Examples:

    "The gears were grinding against their housing."

  4. Housing as a noun:

    A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

  5. Housing as a noun:

    An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.

  6. Housing as a noun (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. Housing as a noun:

    A niche for a statue.

  8. Housing as a noun (nautical):

    That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

  9. Housing as a noun (nautical):

    A houseline.

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