/appliance-meaning

/appliance-meaning-etymology

-) Noun.

-) Pronunciation and accent: əplaɪəns.

-) Plural: appliances.

-) Etymology: from the verb “apply” + -ANCE. The Latin plicare is the ulterior etymology of the verb “apply”.

-) It is dated from the end of 1500.

-) 1. Action of applying; the action of placing in contact or proximity; application.

-) Translation: aplicación, in Spanish; application, in French; applicazione, in Italian.

 [I] demonstrated to my own satisfaction, what has since been frequently observed and publicly asserted, that the vapour of chloroform mixed with atmospheric air is a supporter of respiration. The end is attained by the appliance of the sponge a little distance from the nostrils.

The Veterinarian

… to spur on a horse by the heels, to excite his action by the appliance of the heels, spurs.

J. Ker… Our popular phrases… 1840

It would seem as if he had consoled himself by frequent appliances to the bottle.

R. Stevenson and L. Osbourne… The Wrong Box… 1889

-) 2. Metaphor: action of using something incorporeal, as if by getting a contact or approximation between it and an end (purpose, appropriation, etc.)

Before proceeding further I shall describe the apparatus, its appliance, and the advantages to be derived from its use.

London medical gazette, volume 22… 1838

Few subjects are more interesting than the discovery in the materials which surround us of a force, hitherto unknown, its transfer from natural sources, and its appliance to machinery, its introduction as a new and precious tool into the great workshop of the world.

S. Hole… A little tour in America… 1895

-) 3. A thing, corporeal or incorporeal, used as a means for someone to do something.

-) Synonyms: apparatus, device, adminicle.

-) Translation: adminículo, aparato, in Spanish; adminicule, in French; apparecchio, in Italian.

The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, […] there was wine.

Poe… The Masque… 1842

Within the tower there are beautifully finished rooms-two tiny tea-rooms and a dressing-room, and also a real effective kitchen, with all necessary appliances for a repast or a pic-nic.

B. Silliman… A Visit to Europe… 1853

In the great towns in our country immense stores of books are provided for us, with librarians to class them, kind attendants to wait upon us, and comfortable appliances for study.

W. Thackeray… The Newcomes… 1854

Omnibuses convey you, if you please, from a convenient part of the town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing-machine, dress, linen, and all appliances…

Dickens… Reprinted Pieces… 1867

… another and more advanced stage in my course of instruction; in which the main object was no longer the aids and appliances of thought, but the thoughts themselves.

J. Mill… Autobiography… 1873

We have no appliances here for the education of an actress.

W. Black… Macleod of Dare… 1883

… he spends his whole small income upon chemical and electrical appliances.

A. Doyle… The Doings… 1891

Bill has now brought me some new appliances, as I've also learned to masturbate satisfactorily. He brought me, for instance, a very sophisticated dildo with a rubber bulb, which one fills with warm soapy liquid. 

N. Friday… Forbidden Flowers… 1975

… a variety of toilet appliances.

W. Howells… Their Silver Wedding… 1899

-) Words derived from Latin plicare: ply (noun, verb), plying, accomplice, accompliceship, complice, complicitous, complicity, complexion (noun, verb), complexioning, complex (noun, verb, adj.), complexing, complexify, complexification, complexifying, complexified, complexional, complexionally, complexioned, complexionless, complexity, complexly, complexness, uncomplex, uncomplicated, complicate, complicated, complicatedly, complicatedness, complication, complicity, complicacy, deploy (noun, verb), deployed, deploying, deployment, display (noun, verb), displayable, displayed, displayer, displaying, displayment, undisplayed, employ (noun, verb), employability, employable, employed, employee, employer, employing, employment, unemployed, unemployment, unemployable, unemployability, unemploy, disemploy, disemployed, disemployment, re-employ, re-employment, explicate, explicated, explicating, explication, explicative, explicatively, explicatory, unexplicated, inexplicable, inexplicableness, inexplicability, inexplicably, explicit, unexplicit, unexplicitly, inexplicit, inexplicitly, inexplicitness, exploit (noun, verb), exploited, exploiting, exploitability, exploitable, exploitage, exploitation, exploitative, exploitee, exploiter (noun, verb), exploiterer, exploiting, exploitive, exploiture, unexploited, implicate (adj. verb), implication, implicational, implicationally, implicative, implicatively, implicativeness, implicit, implicitly, implicitness, implied, impliedly, unimplicated, imply, implyment, perplex, perplexing, perplexable, perplexed, perplexedly, perplexedness, perplexer, perplexing, perplexingly, perplexity, perplexment, unperplex (verb), unperplexed, plait (noun, verb), plaited, plaiter, plaiting, plaitless, plash (verb), plasher, plashing, plashment, pleach (noun, verb), pleaching, pleached, pleacher, pliant, pliantly, pliantness, ply (noun, verb), plying, plight, reply (noun, verb), replying, replyingly, replyist, unreplied, unreplying, splay (verb, noun), splayed, splaying, supple (adj., verb), suppled, supplely, unsupple, unsuppled, unsupplicated, suppliant, suppliantness, suppliantly, supplicant, supplicantly, supplicate, supplicated, supplicating, supplicatingly, supplication (noun, verb), supplicationer, supplicator, supplicatorily, simple, simple-minded, simple-mindedness, simple-mindedly, simpleness, simpleton, simplex, simplicial, simplicist, simplicistic, simplicity, simplicize, simplification, simplificator, simplificatory, simplified, simplifiedly, simplifier, simplify, simplifying, simplism, simplist, simplistic, simplistically, simply, double (noun, verb), doubleness, doubler, doublet, doubleted, doubling, doubly, duplicate (noun, verb), duplicating, duplicable, duplicability, duplicated, duplicatedly, duplicating, duplication, duplicative, duplicature, duplicity, duplicitous, treble (noun, verb, adj.), trebled, trebleness, trebling, trebly, triple (noun, verb, adj.), tripled, tripleness, triplet, triplex (noun, verb), triplexity, triplicity, triplexed, triplicate (verb, adj.), triplicating, triplicated, triplication, triplicative, triplicature, triply, quadruple (noun, verb, adj.), quadrupled, quadrupler, quadruplet, quadruplex (noun, verb), quadruplicate (verb, noun, adj.), quadruplicating, quadruplication, quadruplicature, quadruplicity, quadrupling, quadruply, multiple (noun, verb, adj.), multiplet, multiplex (verb, noun, adj.), multiplexed, multiplexing, multiplexer, multiplexity, multipliable, multipliableness, multiplicability, multiplicable, multiplicand, multiplicate, multiplication, multiplicational, multiplicative, multiplicatively, multiplicator, multiplicity, multiplied, multiplier, multiply (adv., verb), multiplying, application, applicative, applicatively, applicator, applicatory, applied, applier, applicate (adj., noun), applicant, applicancy, applicably, applicableness, applicable, applicability, appliance.