Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

housing

/ˈhaʊzɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of house

Forms housings

  1. noun (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. “Housing of homeless families is a priority.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Residences, collectively. “She lives in low-income housing.”
  3. noun (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering. “The gears were grinding against their housing.”
  4. 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. noun An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
  6. 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. noun A niche for a statue.
  8. noun (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

Synonyms

accommodation lodging case casing cover covering lid living accommodations caparison trapping

Antonyms

nonhousing

Etymology

From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
  2. noun That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively. Fabyan.
  3. noun A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
  4. noun An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

Etymology [From House. In some of its senses this word has been confused with the following word.]

Etymology [From Houss.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “housing”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “housing” (best matches first).