The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appliance \Ap*pli"ance\, n.
The act of applying; application.
subservience; compliance. [Obs.]
--Shak.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.
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.
WordNet
n. a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing [syn: clothes dryer]
Usage examples of "clothes drier".
I had been folding the laundry that had come out of the clothes drier.
He'd taken Lizabeth's wet clothes to the basement and stuffed them into his clothes drier, and then he'd dragged the vacuum up from the cellar and sucked up clots of dust, crushed corn chips, petÂ.
He walked to the room next door, opened the door of the clothes drier and pulled out his clothes.
He led Paul to an apparatus that looked something like an oversized clothes drier.
Wearing a tatty red bathrobe over his clothes to combat the chill of the basement, the stout and shortsighted George Woodard paced the damp concrete floor, back and forth between the clothes drier and the mimeograph machine, in search of literary inspiration.