The difference between Housing and Lid
When used as nouns, housing means the activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone, whereas lid means the top or cover of a container.
Lid is also verb with the meaning: to put a lid on something.
check bellow for the other definitions of Housing and Lid
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Housing as a verb:
Examples:
"We are housing the company's servers in Florida."
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Housing as a noun (uncountable):
The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
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Housing as a noun (uncountable):
Residences, collectively.
Examples:
"She lives in low-income housing."
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Housing as a noun (countable):
A mechanical component's container or covering.
Examples:
"The gears were grinding against their housing."
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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.
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Housing as a noun:
An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
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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.
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Housing as a noun:
A niche for a statue.
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Housing as a noun (nautical):
That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
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Housing as a noun (nautical):
A houseline.
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Lid as a noun:
The top or cover of a container.
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Lid as a noun (slang):
A cap or hat.
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Lid as a noun (slang):
One ounce of cannabis.
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Lid as a noun (surfing, slang, chiefly, _, Australia):
A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
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Lid as a noun (slang):
A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
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Lid as a noun (slang):
In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
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Lid as a noun:
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Lid as a noun (microelectronics):
A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
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Lid as a verb:
To put a lid on something.