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Definition: Furnishings |
FurnishingsNoun1. The instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable. 2. Accessory wearing apparel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "furnishings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: FurnishingsSynonym: trappings (n). (additional references) |
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 | All styles of presidential face furnishings. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Offices and furnishings of Mulford & Petry Co., Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Detroit, Mich., offices and furnishings of Mulford & Petry Co. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Office, furnishings and artist easel at Mulford & Petry Co., Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bedroom with spinning wheel and Colonial-style furnishings. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Daughter and son of agricultural day laborer living near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. The furnishings of this shack were meager and broken and filthy. Muskogee County. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Michaels Brothers, Home Furnishings Show. Colonial setup. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ludwig Baumann Spears, Home Furnishings Show. Boy's room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Furniture and other home furnishings. Assorted porcelain objects I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Reducing the amount of dust mites in a home may require new cleaning techniques as well as some changes in furnishings to eliminate dust collectors. (references) | |
Indeed, many nursing homes violate the elements traditionally associated with culturally and socially relevant definitions of "home," in that residents have little control over whom they live with, who comes and goes in their personal space, and other aspects of the environment such as furnishings and appointments. (references) | ||
Business | Examples include machinery, tools, trucks, cars, furniture, and furnishings. (references) | |
Rugs and carpets are currently the fastest growing sectors of the hotel and office construction furnishings market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Portugal | Other successful areas are home furnishings, perfumes and cosmetics, and art/collectible products. (references) |
Finland | These commission agents are relatively small, private companies, most of them operating in sectors such as textiles, apparel, furnishings, and raw materials. (references) | |
Brazil | The arrival of new and more demanding international hotel operators has also contributed to the modernization of construction techniques and furnishings of hotels in Brazil. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Such cells often have dirt floors and no furnishings. (references) |
Bangladesh | There are three classes of cells: A, B, and C. Common criminals and low-level political workers generally are held in C cells, which often have dirt floors, no furnishings, and poor quality food. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | However, the amount and quality of furnishings vary greatly. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Furnishings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.58% of the time. "Furnishings" is used about 422 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.58% | 416 | 13,620 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.42% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 422 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Lifestyle Furnishings International Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "furnishings": Interior Design and Furnishings ♦ men's furnishings ♦ soft furnishings. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "furnishings": home-furnishings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
batik boxes,crafts,banana carving fibre furnishings,jewellery gift home terracotta wooden | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "furnishings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attire, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wear), orendi (appointments, furniture, implements, tools), mobilje (furniture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мебелировка (equipments, furniture), покъщнина (furniture, household goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "設' (ornaments). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bytové zařízení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | møbler og møbeldele;sengebunde,madrasser,dyner,puder o.lign. (cushions and similar stuffed furnishings, furniture and parts thereof;bedding mattresses, mattress supports). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | meubelen en delen daarvan;artikelen voor bedden en dergelijke artikelen (cushions and similar stuffed furnishings, furniture and parts thereof;bedding mattresses, mattress supports). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sisustus (fittings, fixtures, furniture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | objets mobiliers, amenagement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zusatzanlagen, mobiliar (furniture), einrichtung (accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aiming, appointments, arrangement, constitution, contrivance, equipment, equipping, establishment, facility, fitting out, fittings, furnishing, incorporation, installation, institution, location, organization, scheme, setting, setting up, setup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έπιπλα και μέρη αυτών;κρεβάτια,στρώματα,υποστηρίγματα στρωμάτων,μαξιλάρια και παρόμοιος εξοπλισμός επίπλωσης (cushions and similar stuffed furnishings, furniture and parts thereof;bedding mattresses, mattress supports). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lakberendezés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | suppellettili, mobili (furniture, mobile), masserizie (household goods), arredo (fitment, furniture), arredamento (appointments, décor, fitting out, furnishing, furniture, interior decoration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 備" (equipment, fixtures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | びひ" (equipment, fixtures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooid hie (furniture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urnishingsfay fixação (allocation, anchorage, definition, determination, fastening, placement, retention, setting, settlement), montagem (assemblage, assembly, composition, montage, mount, mounting, setting), mobília (appointments, furniture, movables, suite), móveis (pieces of furniture), endurecimento (induration, set), cravação (setting), acessórios (accessories, belongings, dependence, dependency, garniture, props). (various references) furnituri (finding, requisites, supplies, trimmings), mobilier (fitting, furniture), echipament (accoutrement, accoutrements, appointment, equipage, equipment, fig, furniture, harness, kit, outfit, stock in trade, tool). (various references) обстановка (background, context, decor, furnishing, medium, milieu). (various references) kućni nameštaj. (various references) muebles (furnishing, furniture, movables, set of furniture), mobiliario (appointments, furnishing, furniture, suite). (various references) möbler (furniture, movables), inventarier (inventory), inredning (accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, fittings, fitting-up, onlay), ekipering (equipment, outfit), accessoarer (accessories). (various references) mobilya (fitment, furniture), erkek giyim eşyası (haberdashery), döşeme (appointments, floor, floor covering, laying, pavement, planking, upholstery). (various references) умеблювання, обстановка (air, ambience, appointments, atmosphere, background, circumstance, milieu, scenery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Furnishings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: finishings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "furnishings" (pronounced fer"ni'shingz) |
| 4 | -sh i ng z | bushings, lashings, publishings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-i-n-n-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: furnishing. | |
-2 letters: fissuring. | |
-3 letters: fishings, infusing, insuring, nursings, rinsings, rushings, shrining, surfings. | |
-4 letters: finings, firings, fishing, furnish, fussing, hissing, inuring, issuing, nursing, rinsing, risings, ruining, rushing, shining, sunfish, surfing. | |
-5 letters: fining, finish, firing, fusing, hiring, inrush, inurns, rishis, rising, shrugs, siring, unrigs. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-i-n-n-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: disfurnishing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 72 6E 69 73 68 69 6E 67 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-. -. .. ... .... .. -. --. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01110010 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u r n i s h i n g s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 0072 006E 0069 0073 0068 0069 006E 0067 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4087848075857475807385 |
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