'appliance' definitions:
Definition of 'appliance'
(from WordNet)
noun
A device or control that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget]
noun
Durable goods for home or office use
Synonyms of 'appliance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodation,
- accouterments,
- active use,
- advantage,
- agent,
- amenity,
- ancilla,
- apparatus,
- appliances,
- application,
- appointments,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenances,
- armament,
- brassware,
- Charlie McCarthy,
- chinaware,
- clayware,
- consumption,
- contrivance,
- convenience,
- conveniences,
- copperware,
- creature,
- device,
- dinnerware,
- drive,
- duffel,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- durable goods,
- durables,
- earthenware,
- employ,
- employment,
- enamelware,
- equipage,
- equipment,
- exercise,
- exertion,
- facilities,
- facility,
- fittings,
- fixture,
- fixtures,
- flatware,
- furnishings,
- furniture,
- gear,
- glassware,
- go-between,
- good use,
- graniteware,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hard goods,
- hard usage,
- hard use,
- hardware,
- hollow ware,
- housefurnishings,
- housewares,
- ill use,
- impedimenta,
- implement,
- installations,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- ironmongery,
- ironware,
- kit,
- kitchenware,
- lever,
- machine,
- machinery,
- materiel,
- mechanical aid,
- mechanical device,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- metalware,
- midwife,
- minion,
- misuse,
- motive power,
- motor,
- munition,
- munitions,
- operation,
- organ,
- outfit,
- ovenware,
- paraphernalia,
- pawn,
- plant,
- play,
- plaything,
- plumbing,
- power plant,
- power source,
- puppet,
- rig,
- rigging,
- rough usage,
- servant,
- silverware,
- slave,
- sporting goods,
- stock-in-trade,
- stoneware,
- stooge,
- tableware,
- tackle,
- things,
- tinware,
- tool,
- tools and machinery,
- toy,
- usage,
- use,
- using up,
- utensils,
- utility,
- vehicle,
- white goods,
- woodenware,
- wrong use