人住的地方
把人「收容進去」的那個殼：房子本身，以及讓房子被蓋出來、分配出去的整套作為。
housing, dwellings · noun · C1
The houses and flats people live in, and how good or bad those places are.
住房；居住條件
核心畫面
The shell that gives something a place to sit in and keeps it protected — walls and a roof for people, a hard for a machine.
house 當動詞是「把某個東西收進屋子裡、給它一個容身的地方」，housing 就是這個動作的結果——一個把東西包…更多收起
house 當動詞是「把某個東西收進屋子裡、給它一個容身的地方」，housing 就是這個動作的結果——一個把東西包起來、護住的殼。對人來說，那個殼是牆和屋頂，是一整排可以住人的房子；對機器來說，那個殼是外面那層硬硬的罩子。兩邊講的其實是同一件事：裡面的東西需要一個地方待著，而 housing 就是提供那個地方的東西。From the word’s history
From Middle English housynge, from housen ("to house, shelter, receive into one's house") + -ing. The verb sense — to put something inside and shelter it — is what carries over to a machine's casing.
housing 是 house（房子；也可當動詞「收容、安置」）加上 -ing，來自中古英語 housynge。關鍵在 house 這個動詞：不只是「房子」這個物件，而是「把……安置進去、罩起來」的動作。理解了這一層，機器的「外殼」為什麼也叫 housing 就不奇怪了——它 houses（收容、包住）裡面的零件。
Wiktionary, entry "housing" (etymology given in the payload)
Two branches
機器的外殼
同樣是把東西收進去、護住，只是這次被收容的不是人，而是機器裡的零件。
housing, machine casing · noun · C1
A hard cover around a machine, or around part of a machine, that keeps what is inside safe.
外殼
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
housingnoun詞源 1/ˈhaʊzɪŋ/
- 1
The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
- Housing of homeless families is a priority.
- 2
Residences, collectively.
- She lives in low-income housing.
- 3
A mechanical component's container or covering.
- The gears were grinding against their housing.
- 4
A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
- 5
An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
- 6
architectureThe 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
A niche for a statue.
- 8
nauticaltransportThat portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
nauticaltransportA houseline.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。