 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
furniture
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" [syn: {piece of furniture}, {article of furniture}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Furniture \Fur"ni*ture\, noun [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.
--Tillotson.
The thoughts which make the furniture of their
minds. --M. Arnold.
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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