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appliance
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Word definitions for appliance in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: contraption , contrivance , convenience , gadget , gizmo , gismo , widget ] durable goods for home or office use
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "action of putting into use," from apply + -ance . Meaning "instrument, thing applied for a purpose" is from 1590s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
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.