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Definition: Housings |
HousingsNoun1. Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "housings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: HousingsSynonyms: caparison (n), housing (n), trapping (n), trappings (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are landing gear housings for war planes. They are turned out by a New York state plant which formerly made merry-go-rounds and now makes numerous bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, N. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Canada | Secondly, from the manufacturer's end, there is high growth for plastics in business machines and telecommunication equipment such as computer housings and compact disks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Housings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Housings" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "housings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 住房 (housing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | vatfilter i en holder af fortinnet plade tjener til at fjerne urenheder fra maelken (cotton filters in tinplate housings to rid the milk of impurities), blaesere til ladetoerring bliver leveret i et staalpladehus beregnet til fast installering i laden (fans for barn drying are available in steel sheet housings to be build into the barn). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | wattenfilter in vertind plaatstalen filterhuis voor de melkreiniging (cotton filters in tinplate housings to rid the milk of impurities), ventilatoren voor het schuurdrogen worden in plaatstalen kasten geleverd voor inbouw (fans for barn drying are available in steel sheet housings to be build into the barn). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | les ventilateurs pour le séchage sous abri sont livrés avec des enveloppes en tôle d'acier pour le montage poste fixe (fans for barn drying are available in steel sheet housings to be build into the barn), des filtres en tôle d'acier étamée rondelles d'ouate servent purifier le lait (cotton filters in tinplate housings to rid the milk of impurities). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Gehäuse (box, cabinet, cage, case, casing, chassis, core, holder, housing, package, pod, shell, socket). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | τα φίλτρα βάμβακος στηριγμένα σε λαμαρίνα κασσιτερωμένου χάλυβα εξυπηρετούν τον καθαρισμό του γάλακτος (cotton filters in tinplate housings to rid the milk of impurities), οι εξαεριστήρες για ξήρανση σε στέγαστρο παραδίδονται με καλύμματα από λαμαρίνα χάλυβα για συναρμολόγηση σε σταθερή θέση (fans for barn drying are available in steel sheet housings to be build into the barn). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | la massa filtrante di ovatta dei filtri in lamiera d'acciaio stagnata serve alla purificazione del latte (cotton filters in tinplate housings to rid the milk of impurities), i ventilatori per l'essiccamento dell'erba in fienile sono disponibili con involucri in lamiera d'acciaio per montaggio stabile nel fienile (fans for barn drying are available in steel sheet housings to be build into the barn). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 주거 (housing, residential). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ousingshay os ventiladores para secagem sob abrigo são apresentados com uma cobertura em chapa de aço para montagem em posto fixo (fans for barn drying are available in steel sheet housings to be build into the barn). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words ending with "housings": nonhousings. (additional references) | |
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"Housings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: houdinis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "housings" (pronounced hou"zingz) |
| 4 | -z i ng z | closings, musings, uprisings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-o-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: housing, shoguns, sousing. | |
-2 letters: gnosis, hosing, shogun, soughs. | |
-3 letters: hongs, nighs, nisus, ohing, shins, shogs, shuns, sighs, signs, sings, sinhs, sinus, snogs, snugs, songs, sough, sughs, suing, sushi, using. | |
-4 letters: ghis, gins, gnus, gosh, guns, gush, hins, hisn, hiss, hogs, hong, hons, hugs, hung, huns, ions, nigh, nogs, nosh, nous, onus, shin, shog, shun. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: hocussing, southings. | |
+2 letters: chorussing, squooshing. | |
+3 letters: doughtiness, grouchiness, nonhousings, roguishness, springhouse, surgeonfish, voguishness. | |
+4 letters: cornhuskings, droughtiness, ghoulishness, groundfishes, housesitting, schizogonous, springhouses. | |
+5 letters: doughtinesses, grouchinesses, housekeepings, housewarmings, meetinghouses, packinghouses, righteousness, roguishnesses, surgeonfishes, voguishnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 75 73 69 6E 67 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o u s i n g s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0075 0073 0069 006E 0067 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4281878575807385 |
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Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; korean, كوري شمالي, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري, Coreanu, корейски, корейски език, Koryano, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejský, korejec, korejština, Koreaans, koreanskt, coréen, Koreaansk, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτησ, κορεάτικοσ, koreai, 한국, koreano, coréia, a língua coreana, coreean, limba coreeanã, кореец, корейский, Kolea, korejski jezik, korejski, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên, for korean; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; 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