WordNet
n. an appliance that does a particular job in the home [syn: household appliance]
Wikipedia
Home appliances are electrical/ mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions, such as cooking or cleaning. Home appliances can be classified into:
- Major appliances, or white goods
- Small appliances,
- Consumer electronics, or brown goods
This division is also noticeable in the maintenance and repair of these kinds of products. Brown goods usually require high technical knowledge and skills (which get more complex with time, such as going from a soldering iron to a hot-air soldering station), while white goods may need more practical skills and "brute force" to manipulate the devices and heavy tools required to repair them.
Usage examples of "home appliance".
I'm not some home appliance desperate to fill its little brain with the latest human gossip.
He stopped in the path and stood there, looking at this strange machine, feeling the roses and the dew and the early morning bird song slip away from him, leaving him alone with this thing beside the path which looked for all the world like some fugitive from a home appliance shop.
Benny had spotted a furrier's, a small jewelry display, a home appliance store-all guarded by cops.
Benny had spotted a furrier's, a small jewelry display, a home appliance store -- all guarded by cops.