Appliance
noun
A machine or device designed to perform a specific task, usually in the home.
She bought a new kitchen appliance that can make coffee, toast bread, and cook eggs all at once.
Often appears as...
- home appliance
- kitchen appliance
noun
A piece of equipment used for a specific purpose, especially in a job or task.
The firefighters arrived at the scene with their fire-fighting appliance.
Often appears as...
- fire-fighting appliance
- medical appliance
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Formal
noun
An item fitted into something else in order to perform a specific function or complete a task.
During the maintenance, he replaced some old appliances in the machine.
Often appears as...
- spacecraft appliance
- built-in appliances
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Formal
Technical
noun
A machine or device designed to perform a specific task, usually in the home.
She bought a new kitchen appliance that can make coffee, toast bread, and cook eggs all at once.
Often appears as...
- home appliance
- kitchen appliance
noun
A piece of equipment used for a specific purpose, especially in a job or task.
The firefighters arrived at the scene with their fire-fighting appliance.
Often appears as...
- fire-fighting appliance
- medical appliance
Usage tips
Formal
noun
An item fitted into something else in order to perform a specific function or complete a task.
During the maintenance, he replaced some old appliances in the machine.
Often appears as...
- spacecraft appliance
- built-in appliances
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Home Use
Appliances often refer to devices used daily at home for chores, comfort, or convenience.
Could you unload the dishwasher, please? It's an essential household appliance.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Tasks
An appliance typically has a distinct function, such as heating food or cleaning.
Use the blender appliance to puree the vegetables for the soup.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Conveniences
The word appliance conveys modernity as it is mostly associated with recent technological advances.
The smart home system integrates all your appliances for easier control.
Pro Tip 1/3Home Use
Appliances often refer to devices used daily at home for chores, comfort, or convenience.
Could you unload the dishwasher, please? It's an essential household appliance.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Tasks
An appliance typically has a distinct function, such as heating food or cleaning.
Use the blender appliance to puree the vegetables for the soup.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Conveniences
The word appliance conveys modernity as it is mostly associated with recent technological advances.
The smart home system integrates all your appliances for easier control.
Pro Tip 1/3Home Use
Appliances often refer to devices used daily at home for chores, comfort, or convenience.
Could you unload the dishwasher, please? It's an essential household appliance.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Tasks
An appliance typically has a distinct function, such as heating food or cleaning.
Use the blender appliance to puree the vegetables for the soup.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Conveniences
The word appliance conveys modernity as it is mostly associated with recent technological advances.
The smart home system integrates all your appliances for easier control.
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The thrilling potential...
it's about the whole system, the whole energy system that goes with that lightbulb, and what happened in that gilded age was the creation of an industrial system that every country around the world has now started to emulate. So to get to the appliances, you need to have power stations. From power stations, you need to have infrastructure,
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The Problem with Super...
it started adopting all these new policies designed to drive competition at every level of the business he treated the different parts of the business like appliances apparel consumer electronics as completely different businesses that meant that if the apparel department needed it help they'd have to
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Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. But to make them palatable, we cut it out of a steel plate and put it in front of a fire and photographed it like this. We've got lots of little tidbits in the book. Everybody knows that your various appliances
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How to bring affordable,...
That infrastructure then powers productive centers, such as factories, agricultural mechanization, commercial enterprises and the like. And this then stimulates economic growth, creating jobs, raising incomes and producing a virtuous cycle that helps more people afford more appliances,
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Why do some people snore...
elevating your head, and avoiding sleeping on your back may also help. For people who have a milder condition, mouth and throat exercises have been shown to alleviate obstructive sleep apnea in some preliminary trials. But these approaches, and devices like oral appliances,
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Dambisa Moyo: Is China...
has helped to spur industrialization and also helped in the creation and the building of things like household appliances such as refrigerators and televisions, motor vehicles and even the mobile phones in your pockets. It's no surprise, then, that even at the depths
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Gever Tulley: 5...
Deconstruct appliances. There is a world of interesting things inside your dishwasher. Next time you're about to throw out an appliance, don't throw it out. Take it apart with your kid, or send him to my school, and we'll take it apart with them.
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Jeff Bezos: The...
There's a bunch of things that are interesting about electricity. And the part of the electric revolution that I want to focus on is sort of the golden age of appliances. The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb.
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The sort of light your...
wonderful campfire is the same thing as the sunlight that you feel on a beautiful day where you protect yourself from the all violet portion of it with SPF and it's the same thing as the signals used or employed or produced by your appliances
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Diving 1000m Below The...
kilometers depth in the deep sea a part of the deep sea that no one had been to and we're driving through household appliances there was just this very surreal experience
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The thrilling potential...
it's about the whole system, the whole energy system that goes with that lightbulb, and what happened in that gilded age was the creation of an industrial system that every country around the world has now started to emulate. So to get to the appliances, you need to have power stations. From power stations, you need to have infrastructure,
Video examples
The Problem with Super...
it started adopting all these new policies designed to drive competition at every level of the business he treated the different parts of the business like appliances apparel consumer electronics as completely different businesses that meant that if the apparel department needed it help they'd have to
Video examples
Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. But to make them palatable, we cut it out of a steel plate and put it in front of a fire and photographed it like this. We've got lots of little tidbits in the book. Everybody knows that your various appliances
Video examples
How to bring affordable,...
That infrastructure then powers productive centers, such as factories, agricultural mechanization, commercial enterprises and the like. And this then stimulates economic growth, creating jobs, raising incomes and producing a virtuous cycle that helps more people afford more appliances,
Video examples
Why do some people snore...
elevating your head, and avoiding sleeping on your back may also help. For people who have a milder condition, mouth and throat exercises have been shown to alleviate obstructive sleep apnea in some preliminary trials. But these approaches, and devices like oral appliances,
Video examples
Dambisa Moyo: Is China...
has helped to spur industrialization and also helped in the creation and the building of things like household appliances such as refrigerators and televisions, motor vehicles and even the mobile phones in your pockets. It's no surprise, then, that even at the depths
Video examples
Gever Tulley: 5...
Deconstruct appliances. There is a world of interesting things inside your dishwasher. Next time you're about to throw out an appliance, don't throw it out. Take it apart with your kid, or send him to my school, and we'll take it apart with them.
Video examples
Jeff Bezos: The...
There's a bunch of things that are interesting about electricity. And the part of the electric revolution that I want to focus on is sort of the golden age of appliances. The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb.
Video examples
The sort of light your...
wonderful campfire is the same thing as the sunlight that you feel on a beautiful day where you protect yourself from the all violet portion of it with SPF and it's the same thing as the signals used or employed or produced by your appliances
Video examples
Diving 1000m Below The...
kilometers depth in the deep sea a part of the deep sea that no one had been to and we're driving through household appliances there was just this very surreal experience
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Vint Cerf
American Scientist
Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
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John Burroughs
American Author
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Harold Ford, Jr.
American Politician
I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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Dorothy Denning
American Public Servant
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.
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Sayed Kashua
Israeli Author
I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.
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Bill Vaughan
American Journalist
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Robert Byrne
American Author
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
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Pranav Mistry
Indian Scientist
For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.
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Anthony Daniels
English Actor
I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.
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Vint Cerf
American Scientist
Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?
Quote examples
Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Quote examples
John Burroughs
American Author
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Harold Ford, Jr.
American Politician
I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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Dorothy Denning
American Public Servant
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.
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Sayed Kashua
Israeli Author
I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.
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Bill Vaughan
American Journalist
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Robert Byrne
American Author
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
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Pranav Mistry
Indian Scientist
For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.
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Anthony Daniels
English Actor
I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.
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