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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
appliance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
electrical equipment/goods/appliances etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
domestic
▪ A separate utility room nearby houses all the noisy domestic appliances.
▪ Third - the occasional sums needed for holidays, car repairs, house repairs, and replacement of furniture and domestic appliances.
▪ What's more, it tends to suffer from domestic appliance interference.
electrical
▪ The voltage is usually 220v and we recommend you take a universal plug adapter for electrical appliances.
▪ The panels or arrays are used to run electrical appliances or systems and are connected to batteries to store surplus power.
▪ Installation pipes from the meter should be of steel or copper and should be surface-mounted and away from electrical services and appliances.
▪ His new job is to make sure lights and electrical appliances are switched off.
▪ Much the same applied to new refrigerators and electrical appliances.
▪ No electrical appliances in the bathroom!
▪ All the electrical appliances are by Siemens.
▪ Systems of this type have been seen in beer production, cigarette manufacture, electrical appliances and soap manufacture.
small
▪ It had evolved into a powerful but unintimidating small appliance for organizing and sharing information.
▪ Network structures and powerful small appliances allow data and computer resources to scatter throughout an enterprise.
■ NOUN
gas
▪ Extending the regulations to more types of gas appliances including premises using gas from cylinders or garden tanks.
▪ It's often caused by poorly installed gas appliances.
▪ Ensure that all your gas appliances are regularly serviced.
▪ The Society already has an extensive collection of gas appliances which will also be displayed.
▪ These include faulty gas appliances and flammable furniture, two of the biggest causes of death by fire.
▪ The poisonous gas is called carbon monoxide and gas appliances can produce it if they're not regularly serviced.
▪ This check will show whether your gas appliances and installations are safe to use.
heating
▪ Many individual heating appliances have their own built-in thermostats.
▪ Modern heating appliances of all types are generally well-designed, unobtrusive, and as efficient as current technology allows.
household
▪ But the campaigners found only four fridges which were on the list of ozone-friendly household appliances.
▪ This is ordinarily the case with automobiles and most major household appliances.
▪ This restricts cover for contents to furniture, furnishings and household appliances.
▪ Most modern household appliances, such as washing machines and dishwashers are already fitted with non-return devices.
▪ Manufacturers of equipment for telecommunications, defence electronics and household appliances have merged or entered joint ventures to ensure their continued competitiveness.
▪ The list targeted exports worth US$3,900 million, including shoes, jewellery, silk clothing, foods, and household appliances.
▪ More than 90 percent of them said they would support new legislation to ensure higher energy-efficiency standards in household appliances.
kitchen
▪ There is obvious merit in good insulation, using only the most efficient kitchen appliances, heating systems and such.
▪ Has the size of your household changed since the last time you bought a kitchen appliance?
▪ There's a Braille clock, Braille dials on the kitchen appliances and a phone with Braille print-out and keyboard.
▪ The answer is one of the most neglected and abused kitchen appliances ever invented: the refrigerator.
■ VERB
use
▪ The panels or arrays are used to run electrical appliances or systems and are connected to batteries to store surplus power.
▪ The loans, which are made independently and through credit cards, are primarily used for buying appliances and consolidating debts.
▪ Don't use these outlets for appliances containing heating elements, though, in case you overload the adaptor.
▪ Stop using the appliance and get it seen to.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ People are spending more of their income on goods such as cars and appliances.
▪ To make it easier to return any unwanted purchases, save the original packaging, especially for electronics and household appliances.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aids and appliances for its understanding are many and varied.
▪ Miele make kitchens Miele quality appliances have been putting the finishing touch to kitchens for years.
▪ Now this only leaves the mysterious problem of the advice that comes with nearly every NiCad driven appliance.
▪ Police reported they had seized appliances, clothing, video and audio tapes from 30 warehouses and storage areas.
▪ Squatters had dragged piles of old appliances and furniture in front of them and overturned a car to deter police.
▪ The company operates retail stores that sell furniture, bedding, appliances and consumer electronics.
▪ Three appliances and a hydraulic platform tackled the blaze.
▪ Use a plug strip for appliances that can be switched off when not in use.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appliance

Appliance \Ap*pli"ance\, n.

  1. The act of applying; application.

  2. subservience; compliance. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  3. A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.

  4. Specifically: An apparatus or device, usually powered electrically, used in homes to perform domestic functions. An appliance is often categorized as a major appliance or a minor appliance by its cost. Common major appliances are the refrigerator, washing machine, clothes drier, oven, and dishwasher. Some minor appliances are a toaster, vacuum cleaner or microwave oven.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appliance

1560s, "action of putting into use," from apply + -ance. Meaning "instrument, thing applied for a purpose" is from 1590s.

Wiktionary
appliance

n. 1 The act of applying; application. 2 An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end (often specified). 3 Specifically: A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electricity or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices. 4 An attachment, some equipment (or - piece) to adapt another tool or machine to such specific purpose 5 (lb en obsolete) A compliance

WordNet
appliance
  1. n. a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget]

  2. durable goods for home or office use

Wikipedia
Appliance

Appliance may refer to:

  • Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input
    • Small appliances
    • Major appliances
  • In medicine and dentistry, custom-fitted appliances to an individual for the purpose of correction of a physical or dental problem such as:
  • Computer appliances, computing devices with a specific function and limited configuration ability:
    • Storage appliances: provide storage functionality for multiple attached systems using the transparent local storage area networks paradigm
    • Firewall- and Security appliances: computer appliances that are designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic
    • Anti-spam appliances: for e-mail spam
    • Network appliances: are general purpose routers
    • Software appliance, a software application that might be combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware
    • Virtual appliance, a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor
  • Fire apparatus, a fire engine or fire truck in British English
  • In film, a term for latex pieces, such as false ears or other features, used by make-up artists
  • Appliance (band), a British musical group
Appliance (band)

Appliance were a British experimental post-rock three piece, made up of James Brooks (guitar), David Ireland (percussion) and Michael Parker (bass). Original bass player Stuart Christie left in 1995 to form Harmony 400.

They released three 10" vinyl EPs on various independent record labels, including their own self-financed Surveillance Records, before signing with Daniel Miller's Mute Records in 1998.

On the Mute label they released Manual (1999), Six Modular Pieces (2000), ''Imperial Metric ''(2001) and Are You Earthed? (2003). Their music was inspired by Krautrock, a 1970s Germanic experimental movement involving minimalist song structures, mantra-like rhythms and drones. Championed by John Peel, the band recorded four Peel Sessions during their career, and one in 2003 for Jeff Cooper's radio2XS. They toured live in Europe and the UK with, amongst others; Add N to X, Goldfrapp, Snow Patrol, Hefner and Wire. The band have not performed or recorded since the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2003.

In October 2010, the band released Appliance, Reconditioned, a retrospective 3-CD boxed set of early recordings, unreleased material and Peel sessions on the RROOPP label.

In 2011, guitarist James Brooks as Land Observations, released the EP "Roman Roads" on Enraptured Records. In 2012, he released the album Roman Roads IV–XI on Mute.

Usage examples of "appliance".

I think almost any invalid who will visit your Hotel, and see for themselves the wonderful appliances that you have accumulated for the cure of disease, must soon become convinced that if there can be any hope of relief it can be secured there, if anywhere.

The specific category to which the appliance is affinitive defeats me for the moment.

Everything is at hand in the way of instruments and appliances likely to be required, and the entire procedure is conducted upon the principles of perfect cleanliness and antisepsis, which obviate the risk of inflammation and blood-poisoning.

For many years our specialists have experimented, and have given the various appliances in common use in these cases most thorough and practical tests, and have found them very defective, being generally constructed upon wrong principles.

I, lined and wrinkled, leaning, tucked in, shaking just a bit in the limbs, aching just a bit in the joints, showing patches and patterns of incorrect color, purples on the legs, brown maculae on the arms, swirls and masses on the face beneath the surgery and appliances.

There were exhausted old people, sitting or sprawled despairing by the road, pregnant women who would have no midwifery ward, children, some without parents or adults, and hospital patients with surgical appliances and trailing tubes.

We do not make these statements in a spirit of vain boastfulness, but having devoted many years to improving and perfecting surgical appliances and apparatus, and having had practical experience in the successful treatment of thousands of cases, we do say that our manner of treatment is original and employed only by us.

It was well that the brother whose appliances warm this house, warmed also our perishless hope, and nerved its grand fulfilment.

Everything that was on an open shelf or countertop had to be stowed and secured, a rubber band snapped around the roll of toilet paper, the water heater turned off, food in the fridge and cupboards cushioned against breakage, rugs rolled and furniture moved to pull in the living area and wardrobe slide-outs, awning stowed, and all the carefully reconnected propane appliances disconnected again.

As this remedial appliance will be frequently recommended in the pages following, its mode of application is here described.

From 495, I took that recently widened, rough-shouldered road lined with dozens of brave, seedy new business establishments that repair lawn ornaments, reglaze kitchen appliances, sell giant, splintery wooden salad bowls, and offer lots of other services and goods that nobody wants.

Saw the great need for something better than ordinary trusses or appliances, something better than operation.

Maybe, he thought, looking around at the piles of unboxed electronic equipment and appliances, this was preferable to Chiun falling in love with Dame Edna Everage.

The only appliances in his kitchen were an unstocked refrigerator, which he used only to make ice, and a coffeepot.

Squat and enormous and coated with rust and verdigris, long-forgotten appliances for unknown purposes, their pistons seized by age and salt.