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furniture
English
Etymology
From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??n?t??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f?n?t??/
Noun
furniture (usually uncountable, plural furnitures)
- (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
- They bought a couple of pieces of furniture.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
- (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- (printing, historical) The pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
- (journalism) Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.
Usage notes
- Before the end of the nineteenth century, the plural furnitures existed in Standard English in both the U.S. and the U.K.; during the twentieth century, however, it ceased to be used by native speakers.
- A single item of furniture, such as a chair or a table, is often called a piece of furniture.
- In many languages "piece of furniture" is one word, and often its plural form is the equivalent of the English "furniture", for example French meuble / meubles.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:furniture
Meronyms
- drawer
- wardrobe
Derived terms
Related terms
- furnish
Translations
Further reading
- furniture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- furniture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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airstone
English
Etymology
air +? stone
Noun
airstone (plural airstones)
- A piece of aquarium furniture, traditionally limewood or porous stone, whose purpose is to diffuse oxygen gradually into the tank, eliminating the noise and large bubbles of conventional air filtration systems.
Synonyms
- bubbler
Anagrams
- Reitanos, Restaino, arsonite, asterion, notaries, notarise, rai stone, senorita, señorita, tonaries
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