I can’t think of a single piece of furniture in my house that I bought new.furniturefur‧ni‧ture /ˈfɜːnɪtʃə $ ˈfɜːrnɪtʃər/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [uncountable] 
I helped him choose the furniture for his house. I can’t think of a single piece of furniture in my house that I bought new. office furnitureGRAMMAR: Countable or uncountable?• Furniture is an uncountable noun and is not used in the plural. You say: · The house has some beautiful old furniture. ✗Don’t say: The house has some beautiful old furnitures.• Furniture is always followed by a singular verb: · The furniture was in good condition.• When talking about one chair or table, you say a piece of furniture or an item of furniture: · There was only one piece of furniture in the room.
WORD ORIGINfurniture
Origin:
1500-1600 French fourniture, from Old French furnir; ➔ FURNISHEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The master bedroom is filled with antique furniture.
- Carpets, building products, furniture and other durable goods all began to see downshifting during the fourth quarter.
- Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.
- He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952.
- His most famous commission was to supply all the furniture and furnishings for the house constructed for Napoleon on St Helena.
- Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.
- The flood took furniture and coins and valuables in one room, and left everything that was in another intact.
- The scheme provides second-hand furniture to the needy.
- The soldier fights for his country and the broker calls for his furniture.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I can’t think of a single piece of furniture in my house that I bought new. a reproduction Louis XIV tableCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
I can’t think of a single piece of furniture in my house that I bought new.· The furniture was in good condition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· All the bedroom furniture was old and falling apart.
· The tables and chairs were made by the furniture designer Robert White.
(=chairs and tables used in a garden)· Garden furniture sells well when the weather is warm.
· A few items of furniture had not yet been delivered.
a reproduction Louis XIV table· Shown here is the Regal Supreme, supplied complete with a pocket-sprung mattress to bring modern comfort to antique furniture.· His passions were antique furniture and shrewd bargaining.· Amanda claims she got her eye for good antique furniture from her grandfather.· It even has antique furniture that is used rather than just polished.· After lunch we walked around the town and marvelled at the prices which were being asked for some of the antique furniture.· The advisability of using antique furniture in a hotel bedroom is debatable.· There is little call for antique furniture.· We have one of the largest and finest collections of antique furniture in the country.
· The interior features fine furniture and needlework.· An interior from a Maryland farmhouse shows that with nationhood comes a fully developed appreciation of fine furniture and decorative pieces.· He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value.· Sixteenth-century mansion with fine furniture, tapestries and objetsd'art.· Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture.· Today the Gallery houses a fine collection of furniture and paintings.· Because their interiors perfectly reflect the fine reproduction pine furniture that you find for sale in them today.· One involves craftsmen, operating on a small scale, producing custom-made or individual products such as quality pottery or fine furniture.
· She spent all morning going in and out of dark, silent rooms, which were full of heavy furniture and old pictures.· The place was so full of heavy furniture that there was no room to rearrange the beds further apart.· Number 131 antiques, full of mahogany furniture, tables and chairs all beautifully polished.· His enormous merchant's house was full of beautiful furniture, glass, china and musical instruments.
· She spent all morning going in and out of dark, silent rooms, which were full of heavy furniture and old pictures.· They all chose the heavy wrought-iron lawn furniture painted blinding white.· The place was so full of heavy furniture that there was no room to rearrange the beds further apart.· The heavy brown furniture, and Senor Menini: his eyepiece, the solder in his teeth, his dusty scales.· They chose a bedroom with heavy old-fashioned furniture and a huge old bed.· The curtains were drawn and it was crowded with heavy brown furniture.· It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture.· That was not enough to compensate for the oppressive opulence of the dark panelling and heavy antique furniture.
· He began his retailing career in 1964 when he founded Habitat, a chain of stores selling well-designed modern furniture and furnishings.· All the apartments and studios are well equipped with modern furniture, private bathrooms, kitchen facilities and fridges.· Her room was large and comfortable, with pale walls, light, modern furniture and an en suite bathroom.· I suspect that central heating and modern furniture are inimical to ghosts.
· New wallpaper, new furniture, new window frames ... the past is forgotten.· Moving trucks regularly pulled up to her modest two-story house with new furniture.· A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee.· My friend and her spouse bought a new car, a new house, and new furniture.· One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store.· They happily allocated a portion of their development funds for new school furniture.· The council-run Windsor Restaurant will be redecorated and get new carpets, a suspended ceiling and new furniture.
· Don't sell the killer foam.Shops warned over new laws on old furniture.· Squatters had dragged piles of old appliances and furniture in front of them and overturned a car to deter police.· I've seen this happen on many old piece of furniture.· When it snows in Boston, residents litter the streets with old furniture, barrels and a rusty washing machine or two.· The old furniture was left outside in the sun to air.· We went into a living room in which there was old furniture, a worn rug, and a frayed velvet sofa.· I watched with growing amazement a succession of beautiful old pieces of furniture go into the cottage.· Just a bunch of old furniture, right?
· The floorboards were still bare and the bed was the only furniture in the room except a large dark wood wardrobe.· The chair, a bed and a small table were the only pieces of furniture she had in her hut.· The only other furniture was an old chest under the squat window.· A priest was kneeling on a low velvety shelf, the only furniture in the stark room.· Lucien settled himself upon the only piece of furniture - a bench - and leaned back against the wall.· Apart from that and the bed, the only furniture was a cupboard in the corner.· The man was sitting behind the single wooden desk that was, in addition to three chairs, the only furniture in the room.· The pool table was the only piece of furniture in those two rooms.
· Apart from the bed, the only other piece of furniture in the room was a chaiselongue upholstered in red-tinged chintz.· Sir Thomas's chamber, deserted except for a bed, table, and other sticks of furniture was, surprisingly, open.· There is almost no other furniture.· But staff still need a fridge and would welcome any offers of help with that and other furniture or equipment.· The other furniture was a couple of wing chairs a single-ended Victorian chaise-longue and a fruitwood dressing-table.· The only other furniture was an old chest under the squat window.· Ivory was used, like shell, to decorate wooden boxes and other pieces of furniture.· An armchair, desk, a couple of straight chairs and other bedroom furniture were all Victorian.
· Also on sale are seeds, chemicals, compost, fencing and Branson wooden garden furniture.· Maloof has spent almost half a century building wooden furniture, piece by glorious piece.· The shopkeeper had left behind some home-made wooden furniture, and the villagers had loaned Jane several beautiful rugs for the floors.· Mr Welt sneaked about at night and removed all the wooden furniture in the school and replaced it with metal furniture.· Timber and wooden furniture industries reported 206 machine injuries, with many resulting in amputations.· Everywhere, solid wooden furniture, original doors and iron bedsteads are in evidence.· The essential projection is of simple wooden furniture, plain walls, some carpeting on the polished floorboards.· Mr Peters gave me a whole suite of wooden furniture to go in Mulberry Cottage.
NOUN· Fitted bedroom furniture is particularly popular around the 35 years of age group.· He was getting dressed when the building rumbled and the bedroom furniture began to dance.· We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal's range.· Maybe I was going to pick out my own bedroom furniture.· Product segmentation of this sort is visible in clothes retailing, and the distribution of fitted kitchens and bedroom furniture.· Regional Council employees receive ten percent discount on Blindcraft products including beds and bedroom furniture like chairs, stools and headboards.· What's more, when you move house, your bedroom furniture can go along with you.· However, similar problems can arise with regard to kitchen units and fitted bedroom furniture, etc and similar considerations apply.
· Parnham House 6 miles away is the home of Viscount Linley's furniture business.· Hal worked for his father in the family furniture business.· His one younger brother works in the furniture business.· We then found a family-run furniture business near Lezhe.· Off the pitch he's in the reproduction furniture business.
· The windows of the Villa were firmly shut. Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade.· I idly noted that a brass plate declared that this bit of garden furniture was sacred to some one's memory.· Also on sale are seeds, chemicals, compost, fencing and Branson wooden garden furniture.· In fact the Duke and Duchess were tempted by some garden furniture. this conversation bench kept them talking.· It even covers your garden furniture, whether it's out in the garden or inside the shed.· Sometimes, there will be additional monies agreed in respect of fixtures and fittings, or even in respect of items of household and garden furniture.
· Other recipients are: Raybee Credit Union, Hartlepool, £800, for office furniture and equipment.· The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.· From Pentagon, specialists in office supplies, there's a first prize of £2,000-worth of the latest office furniture.· The back room or office furniture included two lockable steel four-drawer filing cabinets.· The following evening Merrill was meticulously checking the proofs of a glossy brochure advertising the company's line in executive office furniture.· The company specializes in office furniture, according to owner Sandy Norby.· Here and there lay yellow plastic helmets, boots, fragments of office furniture.· Raul Salinas once had her arrange his office furniture for maximum karmic benefit.
· The marbled staircase leads to 126 rooms and suites filled with period furniture.· The ranch house, corral and outbuildings have been restored and contain exhibits, photographs and period furniture.· They filled it with period furniture and even had an antique staircase installed.· Inside, antiques, family paintings and period furniture enhance the elegance and character inherent in this finely proportioned manor house.
· Exotic scent mingled with the more religious smells of incense, furniture polish and veneration.· I tried using some spray furniture polish, rubbed well in, on the areas that were jamming.· Is it mothballs or furniture polish or tobacco or vapour rub?· Rainbow may smell furniture polish, baby powder, simmering borscht.
· Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.· She and Ruth lived most of the year in Ealing, where their father owned a furniture shop.· A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee.· Wates was a small family concern. two members of which owned a furniture shop in south London.· At sixteen, his father encouraged him to take an apprenticeship in the local handmade furniture shop.· Farm shop, old granary showroom handcrafted country furniture shop, ceramics artist and Art Gallery.· The furniture shop on the right is now Forte's corner restaurant.
· The shop was owned by Mr. Sewell who also ran a furniture store, further up the street at No. 29.· Edusha had lost her job in the furniture store.· Standing in the lighted alcove of a furniture store at Glasgow Cross.· At the end, he had his own furniture store in Manhattan.· One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store.· Edusha, now working in the furniture store, was away from home all day.· Friends of the Earth want shoppers to boycott some furniture stores, including Hatfields of Colchester.· Holliday, the downtown furniture store manager, said he was in his second-floor office when the quake struck.
· Although the sophisticated Woonerf-type street furniture is not used, that does not imply that the zone needs to be dull.· Unfortunately the same can not be said of the decision to persevere with the existing range of street furniture.· Many categories of street furniture can now be listed - pillar boxes, telephone kiosks, drinking fountains and bus shelters.· There is no reason why Edinburgh should not develop its own range of street furniture designed by some of our young talents.· Planners hope that fashionable street furniture will lend Continental glamour to our city centres.· You could find yourself paying to rebuild a house or replace expensive street furniture.
VERB· Sarah Jacobs has tried to build herself a life, saving for four years to buy furniture and applying for training courses.· Miguel had bought all the furniture in the place.· Do not buy foam-filled furniture if you can avoid it, as it can give oft lethal fumes when it ignites.· The group bought used, 1960s furniture from a facilities manager at General Dynamics and set up shop as best they could.· Potential customers are advised to take the utmost caution when buying second-hand furniture.· People drive from all over the region to buy their furniture, candles, quilts, glassware and so on.· As well as buying paintings, furniture and porcelain, Sir Ralph was a keen book collector.· Let's concentrate on the wedding and set aside minor matters like setting up home together, buying furniture and the honeymoon.
· After that comes the fun part - designing your extension or moving the furniture.· At midmorning they were moving furniture around.· He is rearranging his thoughts like a man trying to move heavy furniture single-handed.· We drove until we saw a man in a tractor cap moving furniture from his pickup to his trailer home.· Annie and one of the lads in the yard helped to move what furniture she had.· He said he suffered the injury moving furniture.· A farmer's wife is too busy to start moving the furniture around!
· He began his retailing career in 1964 when he founded Habitat, a chain of stores selling well-designed modern furniture and furnishings.· She wanted me to dispose of my apartment, sell our furniture, move in with her.· But from next month, new laws will make it illegal to sell old-style foam-filled furniture.· The company operates retail stores that sell furniture, bedding, appliances and consumer electronics.· One spring Conran went on a tour of sixty shops which sold his furniture.· Just sick over the prices in shops selling the 1960s furniture you finally convinced your parents to throw out?· Social security officials suggested that they sell some of their furniture and the television before receiving help.· Sears currently has four such stores that sell furniture, hardware, automotive parts and appliances.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► be/become part of the furniture
- All performers in period costume with period music.
- Decor includes period furniture and contemporary art.
- Inside, antiques, family paintings and period furniture enhance the elegance and character inherent in this finely proportioned manor house.
- Plus a Battlefield model and period costume dolls.
- The exhibits are surrounded by period costumes and photographs, and the show is to last until January.
- The marbled staircase leads to 126 rooms and suites filled with period furniture.
- The ranch house, corral and outbuildings have been restored and contain exhibits, photographs and period furniture.
- They filled it with period furniture and even had an antique staircase installed.
- Little Renaissance furniture survives intact, and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding.
- That year, several superb works of Renaissance art were sold without publicity to private investors.
WORD FAMILYnounfurnishingsfurnitureadjectivefurnished ≠ unfurnishedverbfurnish
large objects such as chairs, tables, beds, and cupboards: I helped him choose the furniture for his house. I can’t think of a single piece of furniture in my house that I bought new. office furnitureGRAMMAR: Countable or uncountable?• Furniture is an uncountable noun and is not used in the plural. You say: · The house has some beautiful old furniture. ✗Don’t say: The house has some beautiful old furnitures.• Furniture is always followed by a singular verb: · The furniture was in good condition.• When talking about one chair or table, you say a piece of furniture or an item of furniture: · There was only one piece of furniture in the room.- electrode
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