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furniture

[ fur-ni-cher ]

noun

  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,. 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.


furniture

/ ˈ´Úɜ˲Ôɪ³Ùʃə /

noun

  1. the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  2. the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc
  3. printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type
  4. the wooden parts of a rifle
  5. obsolete.
    the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse
  6. the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thing

    the furniture of the murderer's mind

  7. 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

“Collins 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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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of furniture1

1520–30; < French fourniture, derivative of fournir to furnish
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of furniture1

C16: from French fourniture , from fournir to equip, furnish
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“We need lumber from Canada; appliances from Mexico; aluminum, steel, copper and furniture from China. All of those commodities and more were hit with the highest tax we’ve ever seen in yesterday’s announcement,†he said.

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They bought new furniture for their Huntington Beach home and buy in bulk as much as possible to keep costs low.

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I followed them and other stylish people to the top floor of the center, where rooms holding rare works of art, housewares, furniture and fashion awaited.

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A lot of your everyday purchases are subject to the tax including furniture, toys, clothing and electronics.

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A group of policemen were loading furniture and household goods on to trucks, and appeared to be trying to salvage what was still useable.

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