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Webster 1913 Edition


Appliance

Ap-pli′ance

,
Noun.
1.
The act of applying; application.
2.
subservience; compliance.
[Obs.]
Shak.
3.
A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device;
as, to use various
appliances
; a mechanical
appliance
; a machine with its
appliances
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Appliance

APPLI'ANCE

,
Noun.
The act of applying, or thing applied. Obs.

Definition 2024


appliance

appliance

English

Noun

appliance (plural appliances)

  1. The act of applying; application.
  2. An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end (often specified).
  3. Specifically: A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices.
  4. An attachment, some equipment (or - piece) to adapt another tool or machine to such specific purpose
    When the boy hid father's feared cane, his bum soon found out the hard way how many sturdy appliances at home can double as perfectly painful spanking appliance
  5. (obsolete) A compliance

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  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967