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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
apparatus
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
▪ With the introduction of parliamentary government in 1918, a layer of elected politicians was superimposed on the existing administrative apparatus.
▪ Because of this, a strong administrative apparatus was needed to plan the use of scarce resources, organize production and regulate distribution.
▪ In so far as socialism means the collective ownership and management of the economy and social relations, it requires an extensive administrative apparatus.
▪ This is a fragmenting process, as different interests from alliances with different parts of the administrative apparatus.
breathing
▪ Four men were forced to use breathing apparatus by the choking smoke.
▪ A trained, fit submariner, possibly with breathing apparatus, might do it.
▪ Falling debris rained down as eight men in breathing apparatus fought the flames.
▪ Firemen wearing breathing apparatus fought the blaze which extensively damaged the house.
▪ Wearing breathing apparatus they were a few feet into the building when overhead piping collapsed, trapping them.
▪ The little mouth was born with a scowl, the brows positively beetle over the turned-up be-ringed breathing apparatus.
▪ Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
▪ Firemen wearing breathing apparatus used special foam to extinguish the flames in the factory's North Works.
whole
▪ Chancery was the oldest and most solemn part of the whole apparatus.
■ NOUN
security
▪ They might have to consider dismantling at least part of the military and security apparatus that they have created over the years.
▪ We know who they were now - security guards from the World Security apparatus.
▪ The majority of public spending went on the security apparatus.
▪ The Archon had retreated behind the security apparatus.
▪ His death was the second significant blow to the country's security apparatus within three months.
▪ The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party.
state
▪ Such studies tend to ignore the influence of economic relationships on the development of the state apparatus under colonialism.
▪ The exercise of bureaucratic functions reflects the way the state apparatus as a whole functions.
▪ The fragmentation of the state apparatus also conveniently diverts the class struggle to multiple fronts.
▪ The personnel of the state apparatus have become homogenized into a distinct social group whose backgrounds have become increasingly similar.
▪ The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible.
▪ They are based on an assessment of relationships between different parts of the state apparatus.
▪ There was no large, autonomous middle class apart from the state apparatus.
▪ State bureaucracies are responsive to elites who do not occupy formal positions in the state apparatus.
■ VERB
use
▪ Four men were forced to use breathing apparatus by the choking smoke.
▪ Such great thinkers as Kant and Schopenhauer have used the apparatus of Wissenschaft to demonstrate the limits of Wissenschaft.
▪ The depression of freezing point can be determined experimentally using the apparatus shown in figure 6.38.
▪ You will learn how to use scientific apparatus such as test tubes, beakers and Bunsen burners.
▪ There are a number of different possible ways of using biofeedback apparatus in assisting clients to relax.
▪ The phenomenon can be demonstrated by using the apparatus shown in figure 6.39.
▪ When all the contributions are joined together we should finish up with a representative item using a piece of apparatus.
wear
▪ Firemen wearing breathing apparatus fought the blaze which extensively damaged the house.
▪ Firemen wearing breathing apparatus used special foam to extinguish the flames in the factory's North Works.
▪ Cooker fire: Firemen wearing breathing apparatus entered a house in Southgate, Hartlepool, after a cooker caught fire.
▪ Fire officers wearing breathing apparatus searched the building but there was no one trapped.
▪ Piglets saved: Cleveland firemen wearing breathing apparatus saved 120 piglets during a farm blaze at Carlin How.
▪ Two firemen wearing breathing apparatus managed to confine the fire to the living room, which was extensively damaged.
▪ It took firemen wearing breathing apparatus nearly two hours to bring the blaze under control.
▪ Firemen wearing breathing apparatus found the woman in the kitchen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The astronauts have special breathing apparatus.
▪ The East German security apparatus used these kinds of devices to overhear conversations.
▪ There's a shop in town which sells all the latest photographic apparatus.
▪ This experiment can be performed using the apparatus shown in the diagram.
▪ This wooden apparatus was used for weaving.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because of this, a strong administrative apparatus was needed to plan the use of scarce resources, organize production and regulate distribution.
▪ Now consider three contrasting experiments with such a piece of apparatus.
▪ Some of the mathematical ideas which can be experienced with the most general apparatus are suggested here.
▪ The president holds tremendous advantages as the incumbent, partly because his campaign apparatus has low visibility.
▪ The teacher was then taken into another room and shown an apparatus which could deliver electric shocks to the learner.
▪ This project was not just one piece of apparatus on a street corner.
▪ With the apparatus, researchers should be able to analyse an item in 15 minutes when the current technique takes days.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apparatus

Apparatus \Ap"pa*ratus\, n.; pl. Apparatus, also rarely Apparatuses. [L., from apparare, apparatum, to prepare; ad + prepare to make ready.]

  1. Things provided as means to some end.

  2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

  3. (Physiol.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
apparatus

1620s, from Latin apparatus "tools, implements, equipment; preparation, a preparing," noun of state from past participle stem of apparare "prepare," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + parare "make ready" (see pare).

Wiktionary
apparatus

n. 1 The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished. 2 A complex machine or instrument. 3 An assortment of tools or instruments. 4 A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage. 5 (context firefighting English) A vehicle used for emergency response.

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WordNet
apparatus

  1. n. equipment designed to serve a specific function [syn: setup]

  2. (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus"

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Wikipedia
Apparatus

Apparatus may refer to:

  • Technical term for a body of the Soviet and post-Soviet governments (see Apparatchik)
  • Machine
  • Equipment (disambiguation)
  • Critical apparatus, the critical and primary source material that accompanies an edition of a text
  • "Apparatus" (song), a song by Bombus
Apparatus (song)

Apparatus is a song by Swedish heavy metal band Bombus, it was released as a single from their second studio album The Poet and the Parrot, on digital download and on 7" vinyl limited to 500 copies.

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Usage examples of "apparatus".

A man on Venus, unless equipped with special breathing apparatus and oxygen tanks, would die of acidosis within a few minutes.

A large number of skilled engineers had already been brought from the fleet and were busily at work adapting the exterior industrial apparatus of the place to the purposes of an aeronautic park.

In this fashion they ran for fifteen or twenty miles on a perfectly even keel, the apparatus automatically working the elevators and ailerons of the craft as various wind currents tended to disturb its equilibrium.

He withdrew a small aliquot of the liquid and began setting up his test apparatus.

In perfecting this alterative compound, and likewise other standard preparations of medicine, we have made an outlay of many thousand dollars for chemical apparatus, and special machinery by the aid of which these remedies have been brought to their present perfection.

As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.

The generators of the mighty battleship roared louder and louder as the mysterious apparatus sucked unimaginable amperage from them.

Hence, none of the Ampersand group who arrived at the submarine school in the second week of January needed any introduction to flippers, masks, wet suits, dry suits, or underwater breathing apparatus.

Fahrenheit thermometer, 1 aneroid barometer, 1 box containing a photographic apparatus, object-glass, plates, chemicals, etc.

Zarth Arn, my most devoted scientific pupil, wanted to try it out and he helped me build and test the apparatus.

Ysabel the doctor employs an ingenious apparatus for discovering the cause of sickness and ascertaining its cure.

And an instrument room with signaling apparatus, senders, receivers, mirror-grids and audiphones of several varieties.

So far from benefiting any one, out of several hundreds of cases that have come under our personal observation, in which this apparatus has been faithfully used for a long period of time, we have never met with a single case that had derived the slightest benefit therefrom.

With new biocomputer technology, he therefore had succeeded in creating a device called a psycho-communicator, or psychom, which could interface with a brainwave amplification apparatus.

There must be no mention of Yates and his Burch apparatus in America, not one word about the FBI and their problem with highly enriched uranium.