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fur·ni·ture 
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| 1. | the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like. |
| 2. | fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something. |
| 3. | equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins. |
| 4. | Also called bearer, dead metal. 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. |
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fur·ni·ture·less, adjective
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
furniture
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n.
[Old French fourniture, from fournir, to furnish; see furnish.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
furniture
1529, "act of furnishing," from M.Fr. fourniture, from fournir "furnish." Sense of "chairs, tables, etc.; household stuff" (1573) is unique to Eng.; most other European languages derive their words for this from L. mobile "movable."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| furniture | |
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| 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" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈfurniture [-tʃə] noun
things in a house etc such as tables, chairs, beds etc
Example: modern funiture
See also: furnished, furnishings, furnish, "furniture" in any languageExample: modern funiture
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Furniture
Fur"ni*ture\, n. [F. fourniture. See Furnish, v. t.]1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. --Tillotson. The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. --M. Arnold. 2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc. 3. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc. (a) (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship. (b) (Mil.) The mountings of a gun. (c) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings. (d) (Print) 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. 4. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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