The meaning of Apparatus

noun

A device or piece of equipment designed to perform a specific task.

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Electrical and gas appliances

noun

A device, machine, or piece of equipment, esp. an electrical one that is used in the home, such as a refrigerator or washing machine

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Electrical/home/household/kitchen appliances

noun

A device, machine, or piece of equipment, especially an electrical one that is used in the house, such as a cooker or washing machine

Usage examples:

There should be incentives for installing energy-efficient appliances., domestic/kitchen/household …

noun

A machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.

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Repairing stereos and making contraptions out of spare electronic bits

noun

An awkward or old-fashioned looking device or machine

noun

A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.

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A measuring device

noun

An object or machine that has been invented to fulfill a particular purpose

Usage examples:

A handheld device, a safety device, electronic/mechanical devices, he invented a device for measuri…

noun

An object or machine which has been invented for a particular purpose

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Biotech and medical devices, you should not use any personal electronic device, such as a cell phon…

noun

The necessary items for a particular purpose.

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Suppliers of office equipment

noun

The set of tools, clothing, etc., needed for a particular activity or purpose

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Computer/electrical/farm equipment

noun

The machinery, tools, etc. that you need to do a job

Usage examples:

What are the estimated start-up costs for real estate, construction, and equipment?, industrial mac…

noun

An essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object.

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A conservatory in a delicate framework of iron

noun

A structure around or over which something is built

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The steel framework of a bridge, they’re operating within the framework of a military bureaucracy.,…

noun

A system of rules, ideas, or beliefs that is used to plan or decide something

Usage examples:

A framework for sth the future trade agenda can provide an important framework for restoring sustai…

noun

Small mechanical or electronic devices or tools, especially ingenious or novel ones.

Usage examples:

The very latest in electronic gadgetry

noun

A collection of small devices or machines with a particular purpose

Usage examples:

We've got a juicer, a blender, a coffee grinder - all kinds of kitchen gadgetry., he surrounded him…

noun

A toothed wheel that works with others to alter the relation between the speed of a driving mechanism (such as the engine of a vehicle) and the speed of the driven parts (the wheels).

Usage examples:

A racing bike with ten-speed gears

verb

Prepare, adjust, or equip for a particular purpose or need.

Usage examples:

They gear workouts to your specific needs

noun

(in a machine) a wheel having pointed parts around the edge that come together with similar parts of other wheels to control how much power from an engine goes to the moving parts of a machine

Usage examples:

[ u ] use second gear going up a steep hill., camping gear, [ t ] our program is geared to the need…

plural noun

Miscellaneous items; paraphernalia.

Usage examples:

All the latest films, books, and electronic gubbins

noun

Tools, machinery, and other durable equipment.

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High-tech military hardware

noun

Metal objects, materials, and equipment, such as tools

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A hardware store

noun

The physical and electronic parts of a computer or other piece of equipment, rather than its software

Usage examples:

The growth of the computer and consumer electronics industries is driven by a steady stream of adva…

noun

A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority.

Usage examples:

The initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy

noun

A system in which people or things are put at various levels or ranks according to their importance

Usage examples:

He rapidly rose in the corporate hierarchy.

noun

A system in which the people within a company or organization are organized into levels according to the authority they have

Usage examples:

Every organization has a hierarchy, and trying to understand that, and the systems and processes of…

noun

A tool or implement, especially one for precision work.

Usage examples:

A surgical instrument

verb

Equip (something) with measuring instruments.

Usage examples:

Engineers have instrumented rockets to study the upper atmosphere

noun

An object, such as a piano, guitar, or flute, which is played to produce musical sounds

Usage examples:

He plays saxophone, trumpet, and several other instruments., surgical instruments

noun

An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task.

Usage examples:

A fax machine

verb

Make or operate on with a machine.

Usage examples:

The cylinder covers are waiting to be machined

noun

A device with moving parts that uses power to do work of a particular type

Usage examples:

A sewing/washing machine, an answering machine, he was a product of an old-line party machine.

noun

Machines collectively.

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Farm machinery

noun

A group of machines, or the movable parts of a machine

Usage examples:

Farm machinery, some of the older machinery breaks down frequently.

noun

A group of large machines or large machines in general

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Agricultural/industrial/farm, etc. machinery they use modern farm machinery, such as combine harves…

noun

A system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery.

Usage examples:

A third motor powers the tape eject mechanism

noun

A part of a machine, or a set of parts that work together

Usage examples:

Automatic cameras have a special focusing mechanism., the mechanism for collecting taxes needs revi…

noun

A part of a machine, or a set of parts that work together

Usage examples:

The elevator has a safety mechanism which prevents it from falling., a mechanism to do sth we need …

noun

An arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.

Usage examples:

A spider constructs a complex network of several different kinds of threads

verb

Connect as or operate with a network.

Usage examples:

Compared with the railways the canals were less effectively networked

noun

An organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department.

Usage examples:

A research organization

noun

Miscellaneous articles, especially the equipment needed for a particular activity.

Usage examples:

Drills, saws, and other paraphernalia necessary for home improvements

noun

A collection of objects, esp. equipment needed for or connected with a particular activity

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Photography paraphernalia

noun

All the objects needed for or connected with a particular activity

Usage examples:

We sell pots, gloves, seeds and other gardening paraphernalia., bags of cocaine and all sorts of dr…

noun

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

Usage examples:

Eventually, it melts to supply water and nutrients to plants and aquatic organisms.

verb

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.

Usage examples:

We planted a lot of fruit trees

verb

Provide (a sailing boat) with sails and rigging.

Usage examples:

The catamaran will be rigged as a ketch

noun

The particular way in which a sailing boat's masts, sails, and rigging are arranged.

Usage examples:

A ketch rig

noun

A trick or swindle.

collocation

Create by putting components or members together

phrasal verb

Place or erect something in position.

Usage examples:

Police set up a roadblock on lower thames street

phrasal verb

Establish a business, institution, or other organization.

Usage examples:

She set up the business with a £4,000 bank loan

noun

The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.

Usage examples:

The two sentences have equivalent structures

verb

Construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to.

Usage examples:

Services must be structured so as to avoid pitfalls

noun

The arrangement or organization of parts in a system

Usage examples:

Molecular structure, [ u ] grammatical structure changes from language to language., [ c ] when the…

noun

Matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied.

Usage examples:

I prefer to buy stuff in sales

verb

Fill (a receptacle or space) tightly with something.

Usage examples:

An old teapot stuffed full of cash

verb

The tangible substance that goes into a physical object

noun

A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.

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The state railway system

noun

A set of connected items or devices that operate together

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The system of interstate highways, we’re having a new computer system installed., the digestive sys…

noun

A particular set of actions for doing something

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They designed a system that tracks results., a system for (doing) sth the bank has streamlined syst…

noun

The equipment required for a task or sport.

Usage examples:

Fishing tackle

verb

Make determined efforts to deal with (a problem or difficult task).

Usage examples:

Police have launched an initiative to tackle rising crime

verb

Seize and throw down an opponent player carrying the ball

noun

An object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to.

Usage examples:

Look at that metal rail thing over there

noun

A device, product, or part of nature that is not named

Usage examples:

There’s a new thing that seals plastic bags., there are some nice things in the stores on sale righ…

noun

A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.

Usage examples:

Gardening tools

verb

Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover).

Usage examples:

Volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold

noun

A piece of equipment that you use to help you do a job, esp. something that you use with your hands to make or repair something

Usage examples:

The only tools you need for this job are a hammer and a screwdriver., we believe the new law will b…

noun

A tool, container, or other article, especially for household use.

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Kitchen utensils

noun

An implement for practical use

noun

A device or tool having a particular use, esp. in a kitchen

Usage examples:

We packed plates, cups, napkins, and eating utensils for the picnic.