Equipment
[ɪ'kwɪpm(ə)nt] or [ɪ'kwɪpmənt]
Definition
(noun.) an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service.
Checker: Valerie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
(n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Editor: Ricky
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Accoutrement, furniture, apparatus, rigging, gear, outfit.
Checker: Vernon
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EQUIP]
Checked by Herman
Examples
- But if he has this native equipment, its possession in no way guarantees that he will ever talk any language or what language he will talk. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What equipment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We can take in none without rifle and equipment, the voice said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Touching glasses together in drinking, preparatory to a confidential talk, has come to be nicknamed hob-nobbing because of the equipment incidental to that action years ago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They brought the cars around to the front of the villa and we loaded them with the hospital equipment which was piled in the hallway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But observation shows that children are gifted with an equipment of the first order for social intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I will look after thy equipment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The equipment carries 16 complete rounds of ammunition with it, which are divided equally among four boxes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is usual to employ a short wave length for low-power, short-distance equipments, and a long wave length for the high-power, long-distance stations. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the equipments owned by such companies there are included 68,636 electric cars and 17,568 trailers and others, making a total of 86,204 of such vehicles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But if he has this native equipment, its possession in no way guarantees that he will ever talk any language or what language he will talk. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What equipment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We can take in none without rifle and equipment, the voice said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Touching glasses together in drinking, preparatory to a confidential talk, has come to be nicknamed hob-nobbing because of the equipment incidental to that action years ago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They brought the cars around to the front of the villa and we loaded them with the hospital equipment which was piled in the hallway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But observation shows that children are gifted with an equipment of the first order for social intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I will look after thy equipment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The equipment carries 16 complete rounds of ammunition with it, which are divided equally among four boxes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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