Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece of equipment necessary or useful for comfort or convenience.
- noun The furniture, appliances, and other movable articles in a home or other building.
- noun Wearing apparel and accessories.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of providing with furniture or fittings of any kind.
- noun plural Fittings of any kind; especially, the smaller articles used in fitting up anything, as a building, vehicle, etc.: as, builders' or upholsterers' furnishings.
- noun A subsidiary appendage or adjunct; an incidental part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
furnish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel
- noun (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable
- noun the act of decorating a house or room
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Examples
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Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place.
A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place.
A Far Country — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909
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Meanwhile, the Obama campaign said it would begin furnishing the cities and states of its bundlers on its Web site — the campaign currently publishes the names of all of its bundlers who raise more than $50,000, $100,000 and $200,000 but provides no other information.
McCain, Obama Camps Promise to Disclose More Donor Information - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Meanwhile, the Obama campaign said it would begin furnishing the cities and states of its bundlers on its Web site — the campaign currently publishes the names of all of its bundlers who raise more than $50,000, $100,000 and $200,000 but provides no other information.
McCain, Obama Camps Promise to Disclose More Donor Information - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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After the death of Henry VIII, the princesses were able to assume full control in furnishing their households.
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Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government … The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wiretapping.
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Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government … The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wiretapping.
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But in furnishing its imaginary, cultural platform for the revival of liberal politics in America, The West Wing has also slipped into an uncritical cult of personality — much as the adoration of Bill Clinton has in the real-life house of liberalism.
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But in furnishing its imaginary, cultural platform for the revival of liberal politics in America, The West Wing has also slipped into an uncritical cult of personality — much as the adoration of Bill Clinton has in the real-life house of liberalism.
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