Housing vs. Shelter: What's the Difference?
Housing and Shelter Definitions
Housing
Buildings or other shelters in which people live
A shortage of housing in the city.
Shelter
Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather
A shelter for hikers.
Housing
A place to live; a dwelling
She came to college early to look for housing.
Shelter
An institution providing temporary housing and sometimes counseling, as for the homeless, runaways, or victims of domestic violence.
Housing
Provision of lodging or shelter
The housing of refugees.
A contract that includes housing.
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Shelter
An establishment that cares for unwanted or stray animals and tries to find owners for them.
Housing
A frame, bracket, or box for holding or protecting a mechanical part
A wheel housing.
Shelter
The state of being covered or protected
The fox found shelter in a cave.
Housing
An enclosing frame in which a shaft revolves.
Shelter
To provide cover or protection for
Trees that sheltered the cows.
Agents who sheltered the spies.
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Housing
A hole, groove, or slot in a piece of wood into which another piece is inserted.
Shelter
To invest (income) to protect it from taxation.
Housing
A niche for a statue.
Shelter
To take cover; find refuge
We sheltered under the store's awning during the storm.
Housing
The part of a mast that is below deck.
Shelter
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
Housing
The part of a bowsprit that is inside the hull.
Shelter
An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women, etc.
Housing
An ornamental or protective covering for a saddle.
Shelter
(transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
Housing
Often housings Trappings for a horse.
Shelter
(intransitive) To take cover.
During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
Housing
A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.
Shelter
That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid,From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade.
Housing
A household or family.
Shelter
One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
Thou [God] hast been a shelter for me.
Housing
Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.
Shelter
The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
Who into shelter takes their tender bloom.
Housing
A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit
A sorority house.
Shelter
To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
You have no convents . . . in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
Housing
A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something
A carriage house.
The lion house at the zoo.
Shelter
To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame,Or shelter passion under friendship's name.
Housing
A building devoted to a particular activity
A customs house.
A house of worship.
Shelter
To betake to cover, or to a safe place; - used reflexively.
They sheltered themselves under a rock.
Housing
A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public
A movie house.
The specialty of the house.
Shelter
To take shelter.
There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat,Shelters in cool.
Housing
The seating area in such an establishment
Dimmed the lights in the house to signal the start of the show.
Shelter
A structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
Housing
The audience or patrons of such an establishment
A full house.
Shelter
Protective covering that provides protection from the weather
Housing
A commercial firm
A brokerage house.
Shelter
The condition of being protected;
They were huddled together for protection
He enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home
Housing
A publishing company
A house that specializes in cookbooks.
Shelter
A way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
Housing
A gambling casino.
Shelter
Temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
Housing
(Slang) A house of prostitution.
Shelter
Provide shelter for;
After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people
Housing
A residential college within a university.
Shelter
Invest (money) so that it is not taxable
Housing
Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.
Housing
The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.
Housing
A quorum of such an assembly.
Housing
Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family
The House of Orange.
Housing
One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
Housing
The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.
Housing
House music.
Housing
To provide living quarters for; lodge
The cottage housed ten students.
Housing
To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure
A library housing rare books.
Housing
To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.
Housing
(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.
Housing
To reside; dwell.
Housing
To take shelter.
Housing
Present participle of house
We are housing the company's servers in Florida.
Housing
(uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
Housing
(uncountable) Residences, collectively.
She lives in low-income housing.
Housing
(countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
The gears were grinding against their housing.
Housing
A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
Housing
An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
Housing
(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.
Housing
A niche for a statue.
Housing
(nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
Housing
(nautical) A houseline.
Housing
The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
Housing
That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
Housing
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.
Housing
A frame or support for holding something in place, such as a piece of machinery, journal boxes, etc.
Housing
That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
Housing
A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
Housing
An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
Housing
Housing structures collectively; structures in which people are housed
Housing
A protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component
Housing
Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse
