furniture
the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.
equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.
Also called bearer, dead met·al [ded-met-l] /ˈdɛd ˈmɛt l/ .Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase.
Origin of furniture
1Other words from furniture
- fur·ni·ture·less, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for furniture
/ (ˈfɜːnɪtʃə) /
the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc
printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type
the wooden parts of a rifle
obsolete the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse
the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thing: the furniture of the murderer's mind
part of the furniture informal someone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of it: he has been here so long that he is part of the furniture
Origin of furniture
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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