furnishings

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fur·nish·ing

(fûr′nĭ-shĭng)

1. A piece of equipment necessary or useful for comfort or convenience.

2. furnishings The furniture, appliances, and other movable articles in a home or other building.

3. furnishings Wearing apparel and accessories.

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furnishings

(ˈfɜːnɪʃɪŋz)

pl n

1. (Furniture) furniture and accessories, including carpets and curtains, with which a room, house, etc, is furnished

2. (Clothing & Fashion) US and Canadian articles of dress and accessories

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Translations

لَوازِم، تَجْهيزات، أثاث

zařízení

inventarmøblement

Einrichtung

ameublement

lakberendezés

húsbúnaîur

arredamento arredo mobili e infissi

inventar møbler

döşeme mobilya

家具设备

furnishings

[ˈfɜːnɪʃɪŋz] NPL → muebles mpl, mobiliario msing

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

furnishings

[ˈfɜː^rnɪʃɪŋz] npl → mobilier m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

furnishings

pl → Mobiliar nt; (with carpets etc) → Einrichtung f; with furnishings and fittings → voll eingerichtet

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

furnishings

[ˈfɜːnɪʃɪŋz] npl → mobili mpl, mobilia

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furnish

(ˈfəːniʃ) verb

1. to provide (a house etc) with furniture. We spent a lot of money on furnishing our house.

2. to give (what is necessary); to supply. They furnished the library with new books.

ˈfurnished adjective

a furnished flat.

ˈfurnishings noun plural

furniture, equipment etc. The office had very expensive furnishings.

ˈfurniture (-tʃə) noun

things in a house etc such as tables, chairs, beds etc. modern funiture.

furniture is a collective noun taking a singular verb: His furniture is rather old .

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The furnishings of the room were light, cool, and practical.

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What struck me as most remarkable about this assemblage and the hall in which they were congregated was the fact that the creatures were entirely out of proportion to the desks, chairs, and other furnishings; these being of a size adapted to human beings such as I, whereas the great bulks of the Martians could scarcely have squeezed into the chairs, nor was there room beneath the desks for their long legs.

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Sometimes she would question Clayton as to the strange noises of the nights; the absence of servants and friends, and the strange rudeness of the furnishings within her room, but, though he made no effort to deceive her, never could she grasp the meaning of it all.

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In one corner was a huge bed, and across the room a smaller cot; a cupboard, a table, and two benches completed the furnishings. These articles De Vac had purchased for the room against the time when he should occupy it with his little prisoner.

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It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length, which is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of the harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the prow.

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He had accepted her impersonally along with the office furnishing, the office boy, Morrison, the chief, confidential, and only clerk, and all the rest of the accessories of a superman's gambling place of business.

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As the journals, on which I chiefly depended, had been kept by men of business, intent upon the main object of the enterprise, and but little versed in science, or curious about matters not immediately bearing upon their interest, and as they were written often in moments of fatigue or hurry, amid the inconveniences of wild encampments, they were often meagre in their details, furnishing hints to provoke rather than narratives to satisfy inquiry.

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It is evident then that we may conclude of those things that are, that plants are created for the sake of animals, and animals for the sake of men; the tame for our use and provision; the wild, at least the greater part, for our provision also, or for some other advantageous purpose, as furnishing us with clothes, and the like.

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Having heard that Count Mamonov was furnishing a regiment, Bezukhov at once informed Rostopchin that he would give a thousand men and their maintenance.

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In most cases this lower jaw --being easily unhinged by a practised artist --is disengaged and hoisted on deck for the purpose of extracting the ivory teeth, and furnishing a supply of that hard white whalebone with which the fishermen fashion all sorts of curious articles, including canes, umbrella-stocks, and handles to riding-whips.

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These have no right to question the propriety of the demand; no discretion beyond that of devising the ways and means of furnishing the sums demanded.

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Richard would have given his ears to have suppressed the issue; but as that could not be done, he had his horse saddled, and furnishing himself with a convenient staff, rode off at once to Thymebury.