appliance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Recorded since the 1560s. From the English apply + -ance.
Base: apply
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: appliances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king?
“[…] Oh, the pipe! won’t you have it lit again, father?” said Eppie, lifting that medicinal appliance from the ground.
[…] sleeping life waiting to be spread and dispersed, every seed armed with an appliance of dispersal, twisting darts and parachutes for the wind, little spears and balls of tiny thorns, and all waiting for animals and for the wind, for a man’s trouser cuff or the hem of a woman’s skirt […]
gloss: An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many house fires are caused by faulty appliances, such as refrigerators, washing machines and dryers.
I know I'm artificial
But don't put the blame on me
I was reared with appliances
In a consumer society
gloss: An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of applying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1658, Elias Ashmole, The Way to Bliss, London: Nath. Brook, Book 2, Chapter 2 “Of Health,” p. 75,
[…] there be three things, and every one full of under-branches belonging to this Art and way of Healing: The first is knowledge of the Diseases: the second is the Remedies against them: and the third of the appliance of Remedies; All which should be traversed in this Discourse.
[T]he attention to fashion, the tasteful appliance of ornament in each portion of her dress, were quite in place with her: […]
gloss: A means of eliminating or counteracting something undesirable, especially an illness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are reliev’d,
Or not at all.
Physician. Now I haue found you out, you are in loue.
Jane. I thinke I am, what your appliance now?
Can all your Paracelsian mixtures cure it,
’T must be a Surgeon of the Ciuill Law,
I feare that must cure me.
c. 1775, Thomas Hull, Moral Tales in Verse, London: George Cawthorn, 1797, Volume 2, “The Advantages of Repentance,” pp. 161-162,
With charitable care
They rais’d him up, and, by appliance meet,
Quicken’d the pulse, and bade it flow anew.
So low he fell, that all appliances
For his salvation were already short,
Save showing him the people of perdition.
The wife of the labouring man does rear her children, and often rears them in health, without even so many appliances of comfort as found their way into Mrs. Crawley's cottage; but the task to her was almost more than she could accomplish.
gloss: Willing service, willingness to act as someone wishes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
rare
uncountable
examples: And hearing your high majesty is touch’d
With that malignant cause wherein the honour
Of my dear father’s gift stands chief in power,
I come to tender it and my appliance
With all bound humbleness.
Derived words: appliance computer
applianced
appliancelike
Dahl appliance
fire appliance
twin block appliance
white appliance
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: приспособле́ние
roman: prisposoblénie
lang: Bulgarian
word: уре́д
roman: uréd
lang: Bulgarian
word: прибо́р
roman: pribór
lang: Finnish
word: kodinkone
lang: Finnish
word: laite
lang: French
word: appareil électrique
lang: German
word: Haushaltsgerät
lang: German
word: Vorrichtung
lang: German
word: Apparat
lang: German
word: Anordnung
lang: Greek
word: συσκευή
roman: syskeví
lang: Hindi
word: उपकरण
roman: upakraṇ
lang: Korean
word: 기구
roman: gigu
lang: Māori
word: pūrere
lang: Portuguese
word: dispositivo
lang: Russian
word: приспособле́ние
roman: prisposoblénije
lang: Russian
word: прибо́р
roman: pribór
lang: Spanish
word: implemento
lang: Spanish
word: instrumento
lang: Spanish
word: aparato
lang: Spanish
word: enseres
lang: Swedish
word: apparat
lang: Swedish
word: anordning
lang: Turkish
word: aygıt
lang: Turkish
word: cihaz
lang: Welsh
word: teclyn