furniture
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furniture
- /ˈfɜː.nɪ.t͡ʃə/ UK
- /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).
noun furnitures
- Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively. The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal. We commend a horse because he is strong and nimble,[…]and not for his furniture: a greyhound for his swiftnesse, not for his collar: a hawke for her wing, not for her cranes or bells.
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item. […]a new universal pistol, one to be carried by each man, with a 9-inch barrel of musket-bore and an iron ramrod carried in the holster; the furniture was reduced to just a brass trigger guard (no butt-plate), and some were fitted with Nock's lock.
- An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming. A Scythian Shepherd, so imbelliſhed With Natures pride, and richeſt furniture? His looks do menace heauen & dare the Gods, His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.
- The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
- The stumps.
- Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols). It read: “This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve.”
- A type of mixture organ stop.
- Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.
- Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.
- Arms and armor, equipment of war.
- Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.
- Condiments of a salad.
- Stock, supply, stores, provisions.
- Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.
- Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
- The action of furnishing or supplying.
- The condition of being equipped, prepared, or mentally cultivated.
Similar: furniture, furnishings
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: lumber, furnishing, furnishings, cabinet, couch, sofa, equipment, décor, upholstery, decoration, carpentry, materiel, movable, moveable, piece, household
noun
Similar: furniture, furnishings
Translations
Every language
noun large movable items
| Español | muebles, mobiliario, moblaje, amoblamiento, amueblamiento, amoblado |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 가구 gagu |
| 日本語 | 家具 kagu |
| 中文 | 家具 jiājù |
| हिन्दी | असबाब asbāb, फ़र्नीचर farnīcar |
| Kiswahili | fanicha |
| Português | mobília |
| Français | mobilier, meubles |
| Deutsch | Möbel, Möbelstück, Mobiliar, Mobilien, Einrichtungsgegenstand, Möblierung |
| Italiano | mobilio |
| Ελληνικά | έπιπλο épiplo, έπιπλα épipla |
| Română | mobilă |
| Русский | ме́бель mébelʹ, предме́т ме́бели predmét mébeli |
| Tiếng Việt | đồ đạc |
| العربية | أَثَاث ʔaṯāṯ, مَفْرُوشَات mafrūšāt, فَرْش farš |
| עברית | רָהִיט rahít |
noun harness, trappings etc. of an animal
| Deutsch | Geschirr, Zaumzeug, Prunkgeschirr, Pferdegeschirr, Gurtgeschirr, Beschirrung |
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title = {furniture},
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