Housing vs. Residential — What's the Difference?

Housing, or more generally living spaces, refers to the construction and assigned usage of houses or buildings collectively, for the purpose of sheltering people — the planning or provision delivered by an authority, with related meanings. Ensuring that members of society have a home in which to live, whether this is a house, or some other kind of dwelling, lodging, or shelter, is a social issue.

Designed for people to live in

Houses and flats considered collectively

Of, relating to, or having residence

A rigid casing that encloses and protects a piece of moving or delicate equipment.

Of, suitable for, or limited to residences

A recess or groove cut in one piece of wood to allow another piece to be attached to it.

Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.

A cloth covering put on a horse for protection or ornament.

Used as a residence or by residents.

Buildings or other shelters in which people live

Of or pertaining to residency.

A place to live; a dwelling

A trip during which people temporarily live together.

Provision of lodging or shelter

Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town.

A frame, bracket, or box for holding or protecting a mechanical part

Residing; residentiary.

An enclosing frame in which a shaft revolves.

Used or designed for residence or limited to residences;

A hole, groove, or slot in a piece of wood into which another piece is inserted.

Of or relating to or connected with residence;

A niche for a statue.

The part of a mast that is below deck.

The part of a bowsprit that is inside the hull.

An ornamental or protective covering for a saddle.

Often housings Trappings for a horse.

A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.

A household or family.

Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.

A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit

A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something

A building devoted to a particular activity

A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public

The seating area in such an establishment

The audience or patrons of such an establishment

A commercial firm

A publishing company

A gambling casino.

(Slang) A house of prostitution.

A residential college within a university.

Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

A quorum of such an assembly.

Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family

One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.

The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.

House music.

To provide living quarters for; lodge

To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure

To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.

(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.

To reside; dwell.

To take shelter.

Present participle of house

(uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

(uncountable) Residences, collectively.

(countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.

A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.

(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.

A niche for a statue.

(nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

(nautical) A houseline.

The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.

The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.

A frame or support for holding something in place, such as a piece of machinery, journal boxes, etc.

That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

Housing structures collectively; structures in which people are housed

A protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse