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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
furniture
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a furniture designer
▪ The tables and chairs were made by the furniture designer Robert White.
an item of furniture
▪ A few items of furniture had not yet been delivered.
bedroom furniture
▪ All the bedroom furniture was old and falling apart.
furniture/shoe/floor etc polish
garden furniture (=chairs and tables used in a garden)
▪ Garden furniture sells well when the weather is warm.
reproduction furniture/chairs etc
▪ a reproduction Louis XIV table
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antique
▪ Shown here is the Regal Supreme, supplied complete with a pocket-sprung mattress to bring modern comfort to antique furniture.
▪ His passions were antique furniture and shrewd bargaining.
▪ Amanda claims she got her eye for good antique furniture from her grandfather.
▪ It even has antique furniture that is used rather than just polished.
▪ After lunch we walked around the town and marvelled at the prices which were being asked for some of the antique furniture.
▪ The advisability of using antique furniture in a hotel bedroom is debatable.
▪ There is little call for antique furniture.
▪ We have one of the largest and finest collections of antique furniture in the country.
fine
▪ The interior features fine furniture and needlework.
▪ An interior from a Maryland farmhouse shows that with nationhood comes a fully developed appreciation of fine furniture and decorative pieces.
▪ He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value.
▪ Sixteenth-century mansion with fine furniture, tapestries and objetsd'art.
▪ Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture.
▪ Today the Gallery houses a fine collection of furniture and paintings.
▪ Because their interiors perfectly reflect the fine reproduction pine furniture that you find for sale in them today.
▪ One involves craftsmen, operating on a small scale, producing custom-made or individual products such as quality pottery or fine furniture.
full
▪ She spent all morning going in and out of dark, silent rooms, which were full of heavy furniture and old pictures.
▪ The place was so full of heavy furniture that there was no room to rearrange the beds further apart.
▪ Number 131 antiques, full of mahogany furniture, tables and chairs all beautifully polished.
▪ His enormous merchant's house was full of beautiful furniture, glass, china and musical instruments.
heavy
▪ She spent all morning going in and out of dark, silent rooms, which were full of heavy furniture and old pictures.
▪ They all chose the heavy wrought-iron lawn furniture painted blinding white.
▪ The place was so full of heavy furniture that there was no room to rearrange the beds further apart.
▪ The heavy brown furniture, and Senor Menini: his eyepiece, the solder in his teeth, his dusty scales.
▪ They chose a bedroom with heavy old-fashioned furniture and a huge old bed.
▪ The curtains were drawn and it was crowded with heavy brown furniture.
▪ It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture.
▪ That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture.
modern
▪ He began his retailing career in 1964 when he founded Habitat, a chain of stores selling well-designed modern furniture and furnishings.
▪ All the apartments and studios are well equipped with modern furniture, private bathrooms, kitchen facilities and fridges.
▪ Her room was large and comfortable, with pale walls, light, modern furniture and an en suite bathroom.
▪ I suspect that central heating and modern furniture are inimical to ghosts.
new
▪ New wallpaper, new furniture, new window frames ... the past is forgotten.
▪ Moving trucks regularly pulled up to her modest two-story house with new furniture.
▪ A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee.
▪ My friend and her spouse bought a new car, a new house, and new furniture.
▪ One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store.
▪ They happily allocated a portion of their development funds for new school furniture.
▪ The council-run Windsor Restaurant will be redecorated and get new carpets, a suspended ceiling and new furniture.
old
▪ Don't sell the killer foam.Shops warned over new laws on old furniture.
▪ Squatters had dragged piles of old appliances and furniture in front of them and overturned a car to deter police.
▪ I've seen this happen on many old piece of furniture.
▪ When it snows in Boston, residents litter the streets with old furniture, barrels and a rusty washing machine or two.
▪ The old furniture was left outside in the sun to air.
▪ We went into a living room in which there was old furniture, a worn rug, and a frayed velvet sofa.
▪ I watched with growing amazement a succession of beautiful old pieces of furniture go into the cottage.
▪ Just a bunch of old furniture, right?
only
▪ The floorboards were still bare and the bed was the only furniture in the room except a large dark wood wardrobe.
▪ The chair, a bed and a small table were the only pieces of furniture she had in her hut.
▪ The only other furniture was an old chest under the squat window.
▪ A priest was kneeling on a low velvety shelf, the only furniture in the stark room.
▪ Lucien settled himself upon the only piece of furniture - a bench - and leaned back against the wall.
▪ Apart from that and the bed, the only furniture was a cupboard in the corner.
▪ The man was sitting behind the single wooden desk that was, in addition to three chairs, the only furniture in the room.
▪ The pool table was the only piece of furniture in those two rooms.
other
▪ Apart from the bed, the only other piece of furniture in the room was a chaiselongue upholstered in red-tinged chintz.
▪ Sir Thomas's chamber, deserted except for a bed, table, and other sticks of furniture was, surprisingly, open.
▪ There is almost no other furniture.
▪ But staff still need a fridge and would welcome any offers of help with that and other furniture or equipment.
▪ The other furniture was a couple of wing chairs a single-ended Victorian chaise-longue and a fruitwood dressing-table.
▪ The only other furniture was an old chest under the squat window.
▪ Ivory was used, like shell, to decorate wooden boxes and other pieces of furniture.
▪ An armchair, desk, a couple of straight chairs and other bedroom furniture were all Victorian.
wooden
▪ Also on sale are seeds, chemicals, compost, fencing and Branson wooden garden furniture.
▪ Maloof has spent almost half a century building wooden furniture, piece by glorious piece.
▪ The shopkeeper had left behind some home-made wooden furniture, and the villagers had loaned Jane several beautiful rugs for the floors.
▪ Mr Welt sneaked about at night and removed all the wooden furniture in the school and replaced it with metal furniture.
▪ Timber and wooden furniture industries reported 206 machine injuries, with many resulting in amputations.
▪ Everywhere, solid wooden furniture, original doors and iron bedsteads are in evidence.
▪ The essential projection is of simple wooden furniture, plain walls, some carpeting on the polished floorboards.
▪ Mr Peters gave me a whole suite of wooden furniture to go in Mulberry Cottage.
■ NOUN
bedroom
▪ Fitted bedroom furniture is particularly popular around the 35 years of age group.
▪ He was getting dressed when the building rumbled and the bedroom furniture began to dance.
▪ We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal's range.
▪ Maybe I was going to pick out my own bedroom furniture.
▪ Product segmentation of this sort is visible in clothes retailing, and the distribution of fitted kitchens and bedroom furniture.
▪ Regional Council employees receive ten percent discount on Blindcraft products including beds and bedroom furniture like chairs, stools and headboards.
▪ What's more, when you move house, your bedroom furniture can go along with you.
▪ However, similar problems can arise with regard to kitchen units and fitted bedroom furniture, etc and similar considerations apply.
business
▪ Parnham House 6 miles away is the home of Viscount Linley's furniture business.
▪ Hal worked for his father in the family furniture business.
▪ His one younger brother works in the furniture business.
▪ We then found a family-run furniture business near Lezhe.
▪ Off the pitch he's in the reproduction furniture business.
garden
▪ The windows of the Villa were firmly shut. Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.
▪ I idly noted that a brass plate declared that this bit of garden furniture was sacred to some one's memory.
▪ Also on sale are seeds, chemicals, compost, fencing and Branson wooden garden furniture.
▪ In fact the Duke and Duchess were tempted by some garden furniture. this conversation bench kept them talking.
▪ It even covers your garden furniture, whether it's out in the garden or inside the shed.
▪ Sometimes, there will be additional monies agreed in respect of fixtures and fittings, or even in respect of items of household and garden furniture.
office
▪ Other recipients are: Raybee Credit Union, Hartlepool, £800, for office furniture and equipment.
▪ The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.
▪ From Pentagon, specialists in office supplies, there's a first prize of £2,000-worth of the latest office furniture.
▪ The back room or office furniture included two lockable steel four-drawer filing cabinets.
▪ The following evening Merrill was meticulously checking the proofs of a glossy brochure advertising the company's line in executive office furniture.
▪ The company specializes in office furniture, according to owner Sandy Norby.
▪ Here and there lay yellow plastic helmets, boots, fragments of office furniture.
▪ Raul Salinas once had her arrange his office furniture for maximum karmic benefit.
period
▪ The marbled staircase leads to 126 rooms and suites filled with period furniture.
▪ The ranch house, corral and outbuildings have been restored and contain exhibits, photographs and period furniture.
▪ They filled it with period furniture and even had an antique staircase installed.
▪ Inside, antiques, family paintings and period furniture enhance the elegance and character inherent in this finely proportioned manor house.
polish
▪ Exotic scent mingled with the more religious smells of incense, furniture polish and veneration.
▪ I tried using some spray furniture polish, rubbed well in, on the areas that were jamming.
▪ Is it mothballs or furniture polish or tobacco or vapour rub?
▪ Rainbow may smell furniture polish, baby powder, simmering borscht.
shop
▪ Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.
▪ She and Ruth lived most of the year in Ealing, where their father owned a furniture shop.
▪ A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee.
▪ Wates was a small family concern. two members of which owned a furniture shop in south London.
▪ At sixteen, his father encouraged him to take an apprenticeship in the local handmade furniture shop.
▪ Farm shop, old granary showroom handcrafted country furniture shop, ceramics artist and Art Gallery.
▪ The furniture shop on the right is now Forte's corner restaurant.
store
▪ The shop was owned by Mr. Sewell who also ran a furniture store, further up the street at No. 29.
▪ Edusha had lost her job in the furniture store.
▪ Standing in the lighted alcove of a furniture store at Glasgow Cross.
▪ At the end, he had his own furniture store in Manhattan.
▪ One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store.
▪ Edusha, now working in the furniture store, was away from home all day.
▪ Friends of the Earth want shoppers to boycott some furniture stores, including Hatfields of Colchester.
▪ Holliday, the downtown furniture store manager, said he was in his second-floor office when the quake struck.
street
▪ Although the sophisticated Woonerf-type street furniture is not used, that does not imply that the zone needs to be dull.
▪ Unfortunately the same can not be said of the decision to persevere with the existing range of street furniture.
▪ Many categories of street furniture can now be listed - pillar boxes, telephone kiosks, drinking fountains and bus shelters.
▪ There is no reason why Edinburgh should not develop its own range of street furniture designed by some of our young talents.
▪ Planners hope that fashionable street furniture will lend Continental glamour to our city centres.
▪ You could find yourself paying to rebuild a house or replace expensive street furniture.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Sarah Jacobs has tried to build herself a life, saving for four years to buy furniture and applying for training courses.
▪ Miguel had bought all the furniture in the place.
▪ Do not buy foam-filled furniture if you can avoid it, as it can give oft lethal fumes when it ignites.
▪ The group bought used, 1960s furniture from a facilities manager at General Dynamics and set up shop as best they could.
▪ Potential customers are advised to take the utmost caution when buying second-hand furniture.
▪ People drive from all over the region to buy their furniture, candles, quilts, glassware and so on.
▪ As well as buying paintings, furniture and porcelain, Sir Ralph was a keen book collector.
▪ Let's concentrate on the wedding and set aside minor matters like setting up home together, buying furniture and the honeymoon.
move
▪ After that comes the fun part - designing your extension or moving the furniture.
▪ At midmorning they were moving furniture around.
▪ He is rearranging his thoughts like a man trying to move heavy furniture single-handed.
▪ We drove until we saw a man in a tractor cap moving furniture from his pickup to his trailer home.
▪ Annie and one of the lads in the yard helped to move what furniture she had.
▪ He said he suffered the injury moving furniture.
▪ A farmer's wife is too busy to start moving the furniture around!
sell
▪ He began his retailing career in 1964 when he founded Habitat, a chain of stores selling well-designed modern furniture and furnishings.
▪ She wanted me to dispose of my apartment, sell our furniture, move in with her.
▪ But from next month, new laws will make it illegal to sell old-style foam-filled furniture.
▪ The company operates retail stores that sell furniture, bedding, appliances and consumer electronics.
▪ One spring Conran went on a tour of sixty shops which sold his furniture.
▪ Just sick over the prices in shops selling the 1960s furniture you finally convinced your parents to throw out?
▪ Social security officials suggested that they sell some of their furniture and the television before receiving help.
▪ Sears currently has four such stores that sell furniture, hardware, automotive parts and appliances.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Renaissance art/furniture/architecture etc
▪ Little Renaissance furniture survives intact, and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding.
▪ That year, several superb works of Renaissance art were sold without publicity to private investors.
be/become part of the furniture
period costume/furniture etc
▪ All performers in period costume with period music.
▪ Decor includes period furniture and contemporary art.
▪ Inside, antiques, family paintings and period furniture enhance the elegance and character inherent in this finely proportioned manor house.
▪ Plus a Battlefield model and period costume dolls.
▪ The exhibits are surrounded by period costumes and photographs, and the show is to last until January.
▪ The marbled staircase leads to 126 rooms and suites filled with period furniture.
▪ The ranch house, corral and outbuildings have been restored and contain exhibits, photographs and period furniture.
▪ They filled it with period furniture and even had an antique staircase installed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The master bedroom is filled with antique furniture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carpets, building products, furniture and other durable goods all began to see downshifting during the fourth quarter.
▪ Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.
▪ He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952.
▪ His most famous commission was to supply all the furniture and furnishings for the house constructed for Napoleon on St Helena.
▪ Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.
▪ The flood took furniture and coins and valuables in one room, and left everything that was in another intact.
▪ The scheme provides second-hand furniture to the needy.
▪ The soldier fights for his country and the broker calls for his furniture.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furniture

Furniture \Fur"ni*ture\, n. [F. fourniture. See Furnish, v. t.]

  1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

    The form and all the furniture of the earth.
    --Tillotson.

    The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds.
    --M. Arnold.

  2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

  3. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.

    1. (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship.

    2. (Mil.) The mountings of a gun.

    3. Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.

    4. (Print) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.

  4. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
furniture

1520s, "act of supplying or providing," from Middle French fourniture "a supply; act of furnishing," from Old French forneture (13c.), from fornir "to furnish" (see furnish). Sense of "chairs, tables, etc.; household stuff; movables required or ornamental in a dwelling-place" (1570s) is unique to English; most other European languages derive their words for this from Latin mobile "movable."

Wiktionary
furniture

n. (lb en now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

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WordNet
furniture

n. 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" [syn: piece of furniture, article of furniture]

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Wikipedia
Furniture

Furniture is movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., chairs, stools, tables and sofas) and sleeping (e.g., beds). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks), or to store things (e.g., cupboards and shelves). Furniture can be a product of design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. It can be made from many materials, including metal, plastic, and wood. Furniture can be made using a variety of woodworking joints which often reflect the local culture.

People have been using natural objects, such as tree stumps, rocks and moss, as furniture since the beginning of human civilisation. Archaeological research shows that from around 30,000 years ago, people began constructing and carving their own furniture, using wood, stone, and animal bones. Early furniture from this period is known from artwork such as a Venus figurine found in Russia, depicting the goddess on a throne. The first surviving extant furniture is in the homes of Skara Brae in Scotland, and includes cupboards, dressers and beds all constructed from stone. Complex construction techniques such as joinery begain in the early dynastic period of Egypt, with constructed wooden pieces including stools and tables, sometimes decorated with valuable metals or ivory. The evolution of furniture design continued in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, with thrones being commonplace as well as the klinai, multipurpose couches used for relaxing, eating, and sleeping. The furniture of the Middle Ages was usually heavy, oak, and ornamented. Furniture design expanded during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. The seventeenth century, in both Southern and Northern Europe, was characterized by opulent, often gilded Baroque designs. The nineteenth century is usually defined by revival styles. The first three-quarters of the twentieth century are often seen as the march towards Modernism. One unique outgrowth of post-modern furniture design is a return to natural shapes and textures.

Furniture (EP)

Furniture is the fourth and most recent EP released by American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was recorded in January and February 2001, the same time that the band was recording their last album, The Argument, and released in October 2001 on 7" and on CD.

The songs "Furniture" and "Hello Morning" date back to the late 1980s, "Furniture" having been performed at the band's first show in 1987. Portions of "Number 5" originated in "Turkish Disco," a song recorded as a demo in 1997 and released on the Instrument Soundtrack in 1999.

Furniture (song)

"Furniture" is a song by Amy Studt which was released as a digital download single on December 3, 2007. It is Studt's first single released on the 19 Entertainment record label. It is taken from her forthcoming album My Paper Made Men. This was a download only single and was therefore unable to chart on the UK Singles Chart.

Furniture is about a woman becoming an ornament to her partner. “There comes a point where you’re constantly together, but you may as well not have been there,” Studt explains. “You have your uses – you cook, you clean and someone has sex with you – and you just become part of the furniture.”

Furniture (typesetting)

In typesetting, furniture is a term for pieces of wood that are shorter than the height of the type. These pieces are used to lay out type by blocking out empty spaces (white space) in a layout set in a chase.

Category:Typesetting

Furniture (disambiguation)

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping.

Furniture may also refer to:

  • Furniture (band), a British new wave band
  • Furniture (EP), an EP by Fugazi
  • Furniture (song), a song by Amy Studt
  • Furniture (typesetting)
Furniture (band)

Furniture was a British new wave band, active from 1979 to 1991. The band is best known for the 1986 Top 30 hit, " Brilliant Mind".

The longest-serving and best-known line-up of Furniture (from 1983–1990), comprised founder members Jim Irvin (vocals), singer/multi-instrumentalist Tim Whelan and drummer Hamilton Lee, plus bass player/occasional singer Sally Still and keyboard player Maya Gilder. Larry N’Azone (saxophone) was an occasional member during this period and often appeared with the band live. Furniture's chief success was in the UK but they also enjoyed a following throughout Eastern Europe where they toured in 1987 and 1988.

Since the break-up of the band, Furniture has retained a certain cult appeal, partly due to a continuing high reputation for songwriting and partly due to the nature of the band's career. Noted for the bad luck and practical frustration that prevented them from making a long term-breakthrough, Furniture have been described as "one of the most unfortunate of bands, and a salutory lesson for any young hopefuls being courted by minor labels."

After the band's break-up, Whelan and Lee went on to form Transglobal Underground (which rapidly eclipsed their prior band in terms of success and recognition), while Irvin and Still became high-profile British music journalists (as well as continuing their work in music, predominantly as songwriters).

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Usage examples of "furniture".

Fortunately, elves fill their rooms with furniture and vases and flowers and birdcages, so we were well-concealed, although I had to peer through the leaves of a palm and Alake was eye-to-eye with a singing phurah bird.

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The only furniture was a rickety angareb covered with coarse sacking in which numerous blood-sucking insects had already set up home.

The solid dark weight of the familiar furniture, the chest and aumbry, the chair and the prie-dieu stood out against the wainscot paneling behind them.

In the living room, Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.

By the time he woke, Mrs Biggs was already busy in his outer room, moving furniture and dusting.

At the end of it, the gambler and cardsharp Edmund Carew had been the jubilant owner of Bonheur, along with its furniture, slaves, livestock, and grandeur.

Winifred, whom he noticed next to the furniture, was sitting at her Buhl bureau with a letter in her hand.

It contained the single item of furniture that Laurie had previously mentioned: a long, high bed butted against the wall, enclosed in a fitted counterpane of dark green velvet.

I gave her another ten louis, begging her to buy some furniture, and to get me something to eat by the time I came next day.

Ilna and Cashel lived had chairs, but many peasant huts had only a stone bench along one wall as furniture.

I went to a neighbouring house where a woman received me in an empty room, which she told me she would let cheaply if I would pay three months in advance, and bring in my own furniture.

Then the presents were brought him, his bason and ewer, bed and furniture set up, his scarlet cloke and apparel, with much adoe put on him, being persuaded by Namontuck they would not hurt him.

Victorian-style furniture and, on a low pedestal, a neomarble statue of Clunky up on his hind legs with one paw to his brow and apparently looking far off.

They held their garage sale the next weekend, taking out an ad in the local newspaper, the Corban Weekly Standard, and spending all day Friday pricing furniture and household items stored in the small bedrooms.