Meaning of furniture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Furniture, piece of furniture.
2. Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
   uncountable, usually
3. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
   uncountable, usually
4. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
   uncountable, usually
5. An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
6. The stock and forearm of a weapon.
   uncountable, usually
7. 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.
   historical, uncountable, usually
8. The stumps.
   slang, uncountable, usually
9. 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).
   uncountable, usually
10. A type of mixture organ stop.
    uncountable, usually
11. Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.
    archaic, uncountable, usually
12. Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
13. Arms and armor, equipment of war.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
14. Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.
    archaic, uncountable, usually
15. Condiments of a salad.
    in-plural, obsolete, uncountable, usually
16. Stock, supply, stores, provisions.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
17. Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
18. Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
    uncountable, usually
19. The action of furnishing or supplying.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
20. The condition of being equipped, prepared, or mentally cultivated.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually

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Examples

“The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.”

“How much furniture did they leave behind?”

“A chair is furniture. Sofas are also furniture.”

“They bought a couple of pieces of furniture.”

“Your furniture is beautiful.”

“Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]”

“She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.”

“The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].”

“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.”

“Amongst the rich this part of a hawk's furniture is ornamented with embroidery, handsome silver aigrettes, tassels and other decorations.”

“Horse furniture included a white sheepskin with red ‘wolf's teeth’; blue shabraque with yellow edging and royal cypher; blue valise with yellow edging.”

“[…]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.”

“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.”

“It read: “This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve.””

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