housings
Cases for machinery
Housings is the plural of housing, referring to protective casings or enclosures for mechanical parts: The motor housings showed signs of corrosion.
In architecture, housings are recesses or slots cut into wood to receive another piece, as in joinery.
The word can also mean multiple instances of shelter or accommodation, though this use is less common: The development included housings for three hundred families.
Protective outer covers
- enclosuresBounded spaces or containers
- bracketsMarks setting off text
- mountsClimbs onto or riding horses
- bearingsAwareness of one's position
gearboxes · chassis · sleeves · frames · shells · covers · shrouds · fittings
Rented dwelling units
- bungalowsOne-story detached houses
- cottagesSmall rustic dwellings
- duplexesSide-by-side attached homes
- estatesLarge property holdings
flats · homesteads · manors · mansions · villas · condominiums · cabins · chalets
Loans secured by property
- investmentsAssets bought for profit
- propertiesQualities or owned assets
- landlordsRental property owners
- tenantsProperty renters
leases · brokers · agents · markets · zoning · appraisals · equity · deeds
casings
Protective outer covers
- enclosuresBounded spaces or containers
- bracketsMarks setting off text
- mountsClimbs onto or riding horses
bearings · gearboxes · chassis · sleeves · frames · shells · covers · shrouds · fittings · assemblies
apartments
Rented dwelling units
estates · flats · homesteads · manors · mansions · villas · condominiums · cabins · chalets · dormitories
mortgages
Loans secured by property
- investmentsAssets bought for profit
- propertiesQualities or owned assets
- landlordsRental property owners
tenants · leases · brokers · agents · markets · zoning · appraisals · equity · deeds · titles
facades
Misleading external appearances
- columnsUpright structural shafts
- cornicesHorizontal decorative ledges
- keystonesCentral wedges completing arches
balustrades · domes · lintels · pediments · turrets · vaults · friezes · porticos · rooflines · foundations
- molded partsphone cases, car bumpers, bottle caps, casings, enclosures
- lightinglamp, lamps, bulbs, light bulb, light bulbs
- machineryengine, machinery, industrial machinery, motors, engines
- coveringscoating, covers, layer, coatings, skin
- partspart, piece, section, segment, portion
- fansfan, sports fan, superfan, superfans, die-hard fan
housingsoffices
Professional work spaces
factories · commercial buildings · workplaces · warehouses · retail spaces
housingsinternals
Inner components or organs
inner workings · insides · components · mechanisms · guts
- off-campus housingLodging outside university property
- housing projectSubsidized residential development
- terraced housingAdjoining homes in sequence
- housing marketTrade in residential properties
- housing crisisSevere lack of affordable dwellings
- housing shortageLack of available dwellings