furniture

[Fur·ni*ture]

The chairs, tables, sofas, and beds in your house are furniture. Your furniture gives you somewhere to sit, store your books, and a comfortable place to sleep at night.

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That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

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"


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.


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.
The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds.
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.

That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

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Usage Examples

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

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Other Usage Examples

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

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