accommodation vs housing

accommodation

noun
  • Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. 

  • The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. 

  • The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. 

  • The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object. 

  • Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 

  • An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. 

  • The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. 

  • A loan of money. 

  • A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. 

  • An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness. 

  • An accommodation bill or note. 

  • Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. 

  • The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. 

  • Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. 

housing

noun
  • Residences, collectively. 

  • A mechanical component's container or covering. 

  • A niche for a statue. 

  • A houseline. 

  • 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. 

  • The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. 

  • An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words accommodation and housing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )