appliance

Definition

  • noun: a machine (such as a stove, microwave, or dishwasher) that is powered by electricity and that is used in people's houses to perform a particular job
  • noun: an act of 'applying'
  • synonyms: charlie mccarthy, accommodation, accouterments

Examples

  • All household/domestic 'appliances' are now on sale.

  • an 'appliance' store

Movie quotes

  • (..) who like not in their judgement but their eye This sudden sending him away must seem deliberate pause Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all How now, what hath befallen? Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord, we cannot get from him - At supper (..)
    2015 Hamlet