different between furniture vs whitewood

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)

1. (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 […].
2. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
3. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
4. (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
5. (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.
6. (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.

English

Etymology

white +? wood

Noun

whitewood (countable and uncountable, plural whitewoods)

1. Any of several deciduous trees that are used for furniture, especially the tulip tree.
2. The wood of these trees.
3. (pinball) A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork.
   • 2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products are Made

     When the design seems satisfactory, the whitewood is wired to make it playable. Meanwhile the software developer has been creating the unique software to control the game.

Anagrams

• wood white