Synonyms for appliance
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-plahy-uh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈplaɪ əns |
Définition of appliance
Origin :- 1560s, "action of putting into use," from apply + -ance. Meaning "instrument, thing applied for a purpose" is from 1590s.
- noun machine, usually with domestic purpose
- And, indeed, every means and appliance of bodily comfort was at hand.
- Extract from : « Hidden Hand » by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
- The appliance for lifting the bucket was of the most primitive type.
- Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
- This required drills, fuse-powder, and all the appliance of the quarry.
- Extract from : « Shadows of Shasta » by Joaquin Miller
- So does every tool, appliance, and machine we use, and so do all the people with whom we interact.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- No horses, after this appliance, were afflicted with sore backs.
- Extract from : « The Prairie Traveler » by Randolph Marcy
- "Every appliance for making a good thing of it," said Mr. Burnet.
- Extract from : « Littlebourne Lock » by F. Bayford Harrison
- Such an appliance would have been the delight of Master Gamain.
- Extract from : « The Hero of the People » by Alexandre Dumas
- Energy, so that every opportunity and every appliance shall be used to the utmost.
- Extract from : « Sermons » by Clement Bailhache
- The skilled oarsman does not need an appliance that the beginner might welcome.
- Extract from : « The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 » by Various
- The iniquity which was bound up in the heart of that child resisted every appliance.
- Extract from : « A Lamp to the Path » by W. K. Tweedie
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- adam apple
- Adam's apple
- adam's apples
- adams apple
- adams apples
- applaud
- applause
- apple
- apple-pie
- apple-pie order
- apple polish
- apple-polish
- apple-polisher
- apple polisher
- applesauce
- appliance
- appliances
- applicable
- applicant
- application
- application programmer
- applied
- appliqué
- apply
- apply oneself
- apply oneself to
- apply to
- be applicable
- be applicable to
- candied apple
- candied apples
- caramel apple
- dapple
- dappled
- dappleds
- eating the apple
- engagement in activity application
- grapple
- grapple with
- grappler
- grappling iron
- in apple-pie order
- in applicable
- inapplicability
- misapply
- not applicable
- taffy apple
- upset the apple cart
- was applicable
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