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Appliance

noun

A device or control that is very useful for a particular job. Synonyms: contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget.

Durable goods for home or office use.

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"Appliance" Quotes from Famous Books

... preacher, who visits the plain people in their homes; it has a well-equipped Sunday school—prayer meetings, kindergarten—its own Society of Christian Endeavor, and King's Daughters, its penny savings bank and its temperance society—in short, every appliance essential to a Christian church. Many others of our strong Brooklyn churches are working precisely on the same practical, common-sense lines. If all the wealthy churches in New York would illuminate the darker quarters of that city with a hundred well-manned light-houses, well provided with ...

— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

... repeat her shocked but emphatic denial in the presence of Mrs. Glendinning and Mrs. Urquhart, both ladies having a mind to bring their wardrobes up to date. They agreed that there was much to be said in favour of the appliance, over and above its novelty. Especially would it be welcome at those times when... But here the speakers dropped into woman's mysterious code of nods and signs; while Zara, turning modestly away, pretended to count the stitches ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... a girl demonstrate a vacuum cleaner (or some other appliance) to another girl (mistress of ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... modification of circumstances; and he went on contentedly enough, picking up a promiscuous education chiefly from things that were not intended as education at all. What was understood to be his education was simply the practice of reading, writing, and spelling, carried on by an elaborate appliance of unintelligible ideas, and by much failure in the effort to learn ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... uniform thing called life be the sole cause, determining organic Evolution and selecting accidental variations, just in so far as they favour its own maintenance and multiplication, then every organ, appliance, and faculty by which man differs from the simplest bioplast, is merely a life-preserving contrivance. To speak human-wise, Nature in that case has but one end—animal life; and chooses every means solely with a view to that end. ...

— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

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