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fur·ni·ture

(fûr′nĭ-chər)

1. The movable articles in a room or an establishment that make it fit for living or working.

2. Archaic Necessary equipment, as for a saddle horse or sailing ship.

[Old French fourniture, from fournir, to furnish; see furnish.]

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furniture

(ˈfɜːnɪtʃə)

1. (Furniture) the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc

2. the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc

3. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type

4. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) the wooden parts of a rifle

5. (Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) obsolete the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse

6. the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thing: the furniture of the murderer's mind.

7. part of the furniture informal someone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of it: he has been here so long that he is part of the furniture.

8. See door furniture, street furniture

[C16: from French fourniture, from fournir to equip, furnish]

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fur•ni•ture

(ˈfɜr nɪ tʃər)

n.

1. the movable articles, as tables, chairs, or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.

2. fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.

3. pieces of wood or metal for holding pages of type in place in a chase.

[1520–30; < French fourniture, derivative of fournir to furnish]

furniture

- The furniture of a ship is its apparel, including the sails, rigging, and anchor; to apparel, in early use, meant "make ready or fit."

furniture

Furniture consists of the large moveable objects in a room, such as tables and chairs.

She arranged the furniture.

All the furniture is made of wood.

Furniture is an uncountable noun. Don't talk about 'a furniture' or 'furnitures'. You can refer to a single item as a piece of furniture.

Each piece of furniture matched the style of the house.

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Noun

furniture - 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"

article of furniture, piece of furniture

cabinetry, cabinetwork - the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality)

Americana - any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America

baby bed, baby's bed - a small bed for babies; enclosed by sides to prevent the baby from falling

bedroom furniture - furniture intended for use in a bedroom

bedframe, bedstead - the framework of a bed

bookcase - a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books

buffet, sideboard, counter - a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

cabinet - a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display

chest of drawers, dresser, bureau, chest - furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

dining-room furniture - furniture intended for use in a dining room

etagere - a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments

fitment - any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture); "she liked the kitchen fitments"

furnishing - (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable

hallstand - a piece of furniture where coats and hats and umbrellas can be hung; usually has a mirror

lamp - a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

lawn furniture - furniture intended for use on a lawn or in a garden

nest - furniture pieces made to fit close together

office furniture - furniture intended for use in an office

rosemaling - a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs

seat - furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests"

sectional - a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together

Sheraton - a furniture style that originated in England around 1800; simple in design with straight lines and classical ornamentation

sleeper - a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed

table - a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table"

table - a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant"

wall unit - a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room

wardrobe, closet, press - a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

wash-hand stand, washstand - furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term

chattel, movable, personal chattel - personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

ebonise, ebonize - stain black to make it look like ebony

furnished, equipped - provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority); "a furnished apartment"; "a completely furnished toolbox"

furniture

noun household goods, furnishings, fittings, house fittings, goods, things (informal), effects, equipment, appointments, possessions, appliances, chattels, movable property, movables Each piece of furniture suited their style of house.

Furniture

Types of furniture bedpost, bedstead, canopy, cheval glass, coatstand, dumbwaiter, epergne, footstool, girandole or girandola, grandfather clock, grandmother clock, hallstand, hatstand, headboard, lectern, litter, longcase clock, screen, tester, trolley, umbrella stand, vanitory or vanity unit, washstand

Furniture styles Art Deco, Bauhaus, Cape Dutch, Edwardian, Elizabethan, Empire, Georgian, Gothic, Greek Revival, Jacobean, Louis Quatorze, Louis Quinze, Louis Seize, Louis Treize, Medieval, New Georgian, Norman, Puritan, Queen Anne, Regency, Restoration, Saxon, Second Empire, Shaker, Tudor, Victorian, William and Mary

Furniture designers Alvar Aalto (Finnish), Robert Adam (Scottish) (Harry Bertoia) (Italian), Charles Bevan (English), Marcel Lajos Breuer (U.S.), Marcel Lajos Breuer (Hungarian-U.S.), William Burges (English), Thomas Chippendale (English) (Donald Deskey) (U.S.) (Charles Eames) (U.S.), Ambrose Heal (English), George Hepplewhite (English), Inigo Jones (English), William Jones (English), William Kent (English), Kaara Klint (Danish), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish), Daniel Marot (French), William Morris (English), Michael Angelo Pergolesi (Italian), Duncan Phyfe (Scottish-U.S.), Augustus Pugin (English), Thomas Sheraton (English), George Smith (English), Charles Voysey (English)

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Translations

أثاثأَثَاثاثاثمفروشات

nábytek

møblerinventarmøbel

Möbel Möbelstück

έπιπλα έπιπλο

mobiliario muebles mueble

huonekalut

mobilier meubles

namještaj

bútorbútorzat

húsgögn

mobili mobilia mobilio arredo mobile

家具

가구

supellex

meubel meubelsmeubelstuk

nábytok

pohištvo

möbler

เครื่องเรือน

mobilya möble

bộ đồ gỗ

家具

furniture

[ˈfɜːnɪtʃəʳ]

A. N → muebles mpl, mobiliario m
a piece of furniture → un mueble
part of the furniture (fig) → parte f de la casa or del mobiliario

B. CPD furniture mover N (US) = furniture remover furniture polish N → cera f para muebles
furniture remover N → compañía f de mudanzas
furniture shop N → tienda f de muebles
furniture van N → camión m de mudanzas

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

furniture

[ˈfɜː^rnɪtʃə^r] n

→ meubles mpl, mobilier m
piece of furniture → meuble m

to be part of the furniture (humorous) [person, thing] → faire partie des meublesfurniture mover n (US) → déménageur mfurniture polish n → encaustique ffurniture remover n → déménageur mfurniture shop n → magasin m d'ameublementfurniture van n → camion m de déménagement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

furniture

n → Möbel pl; a piece of furniture → ein Möbelstück nt; I must buy some furniture → ich muss Möbel kaufen; one settee and three chairs were all the furniture we had → unsere Einrichtung bestand nur aus einem Sofa und drei Stühlen; if I stay here much longer, I’ll become a part of the furniture → wenn ich noch viel länger hierbleibe, gehöre ich bald zum Inventar

furniture

furniture depository, furniture depot (US)

n → Möbellager nt

furniture remover

n → Möbelspediteur m

furniture van

n (Brit) → Möbelwagen m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

furniture

[ˈfɜːnɪtʃəʳ] n → mobili mpl, mobilia
a piece of furniture → un mobile
to be part of the furniture (fig) (fam) → confondersi con la tappezzeria

furnish

(ˈfəːniʃ) verb

1. to provide (a house etc) with furniture. We spent a lot of money on furnishing our house.

2. to give (what is necessary); to supply. They furnished the library with new books.

ˈfurnished adjective

a furnished flat.

ˈfurnishings noun plural

furniture, equipment etc. The office had very expensive furnishings.

ˈfurniture (-tʃə) noun

things in a house etc such as tables, chairs, beds etc. modern funiture.

furniture is a collective noun taking a singular verb: His furniture is rather old .

furniture

→ أَثَاث nábytek møbler Möbel έπιπλα mobiliario huonekalut meubles namještaj mobili 家具 가구 meubels møbel meble mobília мебель möbler เครื่องเรือน mobilya bộ đồ gỗ 家具

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That'd be the interest on the furniture for four rooms.

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In short, the cost of an article of furniture has at length come to be, with us, nearly the sole test of its merit in a decorative point of view - and this test, once established, has led the way to many analogous errors, readily traceable to the one primitive folly.

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Besides my plate and family pictures, household furniture of every kind, my own, my children's, and servants' apparel, they carried off about £900 sterling in money, and emptied the house of everything whatsoever, except a part of the kitchen furniture, not leaving a single book or paper in it, and have scattered or destroyed all the manuscripts and other papers I had been collecting for thirty years together, besides a great number of public papers in my custody.

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Nearly one hundred of this I spent in buying furniture to fit up the little house we took to live in.

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My furniture, part of which I made myself -- and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account -- consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp.

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It is a piece of old furniture that has led me astray, and fancies gather, somehow, round old furniture, like moss around old stones.

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Yes, the very furniture seemed even lonelier than myself.

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John Dashwood told his mother again and again how exceedingly sorry he was that she had taken a house at such a distance from Norland as to prevent his being of any service to her in removing her furniture. He really felt conscientiously vexed on the occasion; for the very exertion to which he had limited the performance of his promise to his father was by this arrangement rendered impracticable.-- The furniture was all sent around by water.

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But the furniture was actually in the vans and on the move before the lease for Wickham Place was signed, and Emily took train with baby--who was Margaret then--and the smaller luggage for London, without so much as knowing where her new home would be.

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Halfacre, we must quit this house this very week, and all this fine furniture must be brought to the hammer.

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The little room was almost bare of furniture, and there were no other clothes than the shabby brown dress she had always worn.

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"Of course, we'll take over your furniture, mother," Winnie had remarked.

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