Furniture
['fɜːnɪtʃə] or ['fɝnɪtʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; 'they had too much furniture for the small apartment'; 'there was only one piece of furniture in the room'.
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Definition
(v. t.) That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
(v. t.) Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
(v. t.) The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.
(v. t.) The masts and rigging of a ship.
(v. t.) The mountings of a gun.
(v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.
(v. t.) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.
(v. t.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Movables, chattels, effects, goods.[2]. Appendages, apparatus.[3]. Equipage, ornaments, decorations, embellishments.
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Definition
n. movables either for use or ornament with which a house is equipped: equipage the trappings of a horse &c.: decorations: the necessary appendages in some arts &c.: (print.) the pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
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Examples
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The furniture for which he owed would not want renewing; nor even the stock of wine for a long while. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In the midst of all this magnificence, the solid gold and silver furniture of the altar seemed cheap and trivial. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The bench was the only furniture of the room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Is the absence of unlimited proprietary rights felt more strongly in the case of personal chattels (such as furniture and ornaments) than in the case of land or machinery? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was really a letter insisting on the payment of a bill for furniture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Upholsterers frequently let furniture by the month or by the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is a horrible tyranny of a fixed milieu, where each piece of furniture is a commandment-stone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mrs. Peniston felt as if there had been a contagious illness in the house, and she was doomed to sit shivering among her contaminated furniture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And these, with some ordinary London lodging-house furniture of the better sort, completed the whole. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I saw the rooms that I was never to see again; here, a door half open; there, a door closed; all the articles of furniture around. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The furniture for which he owed would not want renewing; nor even the stock of wine for a long while. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In the midst of all this magnificence, the solid gold and silver furniture of the altar seemed cheap and trivial. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The bench was the only furniture of the room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Is the absence of unlimited proprietary rights felt more strongly in the case of personal chattels (such as furniture and ornaments) than in the case of land or machinery? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was really a letter insisting on the payment of a bill for furniture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Upholsterers frequently let furniture by the month or by the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is a horrible tyranny of a fixed milieu, where each piece of furniture is a commandment-stone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mrs. Peniston felt as if there had been a contagious illness in the house, and she was doomed to sit shivering among her contaminated furniture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And these, with some ordinary London lodging-house furniture of the better sort, completed the whole. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I saw the rooms that I was never to see again; here, a door half open; there, a door closed; all the articles of furniture around. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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