furniture

[ fur-ni-cher ]

/ ˈfɜr nɪ tʃər /

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noun

the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.

fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something.

equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins.

Also called bearer, dead metal. Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase.

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Origin of furniture

1520–30; <French fourniture, derivative of fournir to furnish

OTHER WORDS FROM furniture

fur·ni·ture·less, adjective

Words nearby furniture

furnish, furnished, furnishing, furnishings, furnit., furniture, furniture beetle, Furnivall, furo, furocoumarin, furor

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How to use furniture in a sentence

Among them, the lawsuit says, is an alleged failure by Us Helping Us to remove office furniture from the building during the renovation work and the presence of Us Helping Us employees working in the building at the time of the renovation.
Us Helping Us hit with $3.8 million breach of contract lawsuit|Lou Chibbaro Jr.|February 8, 2021|Washington Blade
Harlem Shuffle, about a furniture salesman wrapped up in a double life of crime, is something of a departure.
'The World Always Outwits Human Ingenuity.' How the Energetic Cover of Colson Whitehead’s Upcoming Novel Harlem Shuffle Hints at the Heist Within|Lucy Feldman|February 2, 2021|Time
Investigators also said the biomedical arm wrongly covered millions of dollars in other administrative costs, such as having furniture removed from other parts of the building where its office was housed.
Millions earmarked for public health emergencies were used to pay for unrelated projects, inspector general says|Dan Diamond, Lisa Rein|January 27, 2021|Washington Post
This piece of bedroom furniture will mold to your body weight and quickly return to its original shape when you get up, which means less time spent shuffling positions while trying to get comfortable every time you get into bed.
Best memory foam mattress: Sleep better on one of these picks|PopSci Commerce Team|January 25, 2021|Popular-Science

Down the road, it’s possible we’ll not only build furniture—but grow it too.
No Trees Harmed: MIT Aims to One Day Grow Your Kitchen Table in a Lab|Jason Dorrier|January 24, 2021|Singularity Hub
Many hold classes in their living rooms, asking students to help re-arrange and then later put back furniture.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread|IranWire|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They were carpenters making chairs, beds and other rudimentary pieces of furniture for the locals.
The Brothers Who Ambushed ISIS|Mohammed A. Salih|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The charisma and brand of the artist itself becomes a kind of furniture.
Sneer and Clothing in Miami: Inside The $3 Billion Woodstock of Contemporary Art|Jay Michaelson|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Residents had placed makeshift roadblocks, including wooden beams and furniture, on roads leading to the protest.
A New Intifada? Israel’s Arab Citizen Uprising Spreads|Creede Newton|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then, with one accord, they all rose and began to steer their way around the furniture toward the hall, Goliath following.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
The plain furniture was stiffly arranged, and there was no litter of clothing or small feminine belongings.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
"I'd have been in a pretty fix if he had finished my house, and I had tried to move my furniture into it," he muttered.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
It has been stated that many articles of furniture, &c., made by him are still in use.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

British Dictionary definitions for furniture

furniture

/ (ˈfɜːnɪtʃə) /

noun

the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc

the equipment necessary for a ship, factory, etc

printing lengths of wood, plastic, or metal, used in assembling formes to create the blank areas and to surround the type

the wooden parts of a rifle

obsolete the full armour, trappings, etc, for a man and horse

the attitudes or characteristics that are typical of a person or thingthe furniture of the murderer's mind

part of the furniture informal someone or something that is so long established in an environment as to be accepted as an integral part of ithe has been here so long that he is part of the furniture

See door furniture, street furniture

Word Origin for furniture

C16: from French fourniture, from fournir to equip, furnish

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