Furniture

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fur=ni=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

Furniture, n. [F. fourniture. See Furnish, v. t.].

•  That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.  [1913 Webster]

  "The form and all the furniture of the earth."  [1913 Webster]

  "The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds."  [1913 Webster]
•  Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Furniture, n.
1 the movable equipment of a house, room, etc., e.g. tables, chairs, and beds.
2 Naut. a ship's equipment, esp. tackle etc.
3 accessories, e.g. the handles and lock of a door.
4 Printing pieces of wood or metal placed round or between type to make blank spaces and fasten the matter in the chase.

Idiom

furniture beetle a beetle, Anobium punctatum, the larvae of which bore into wood (see WOODWORM). furniture van a large van used to move furniture from one house to another. part of the furniture colloq. a person or thing taken for granted.

Etymology

F fourniture f. fournir (as FURNISH)

THESAURUS

Furniture

Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, accessories, accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, belongings, chattels, clobber, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, conveniences, devices, duffel, dummy, effects, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, galley chase, gear, home furnishings, hot-metal typesetting, impedimenta, imposition, installations, justification, kit, layout, line of type, machinery, materiel, movables, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, plant, plumbing, possessions, quoin, rig, rigging, setting, shit, slug, stock-in-trade, stuff, tack, tackle, things, trappings, typesetting, typesetting machine, utensils

ROGET THESAURUS

Furniture

Instrument

N instrument, machinery, mechanism, engineering, instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill, air engine, caloric engine, heat engine, gear, tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances, plant, materiel, harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments, barde, equipment, equipmentage, appointments, furniture, upholstery, chattels, paraphernalia, mechanical powers, lever, leverage, mechanical advantage, crow, crowbar, handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing, oar, paddle, pulley, wheel and axle, wheelwork, clockwork, wheels within wheels, pinion, crank, winch, cam, pedal, capstan, wheel, inclined plane, wedge, screw, spring, mainspring, can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel, handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key, turnscrew, screwdriver, knocker, hammer, edge tool, borer, vice, teeth, nail, rope, peg, support, spoon, arms, oar, cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph, instrumental, mechanical, machinal, brachial.