Furniture vs Baby - What's the difference?
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Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
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*:We commend a horse because he is strong and nimble,and not for his furniture : a greyhound for his swiftnesse, not for his collar: a hawke for her wing, not for her cranes or bells.
*1934 , (George Cameron Stone), A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor , ISBN 0486407268.
*:Amongst the rich this part of a hawk's furniture is ornamented with embroidery, handsome silver aigrettes, tassels and other decorations.
*2002 , Ronald Pawly, Wellington's Dutch Allies 1815 , page 19, ISBN 1841763934.
*:Horse furniture included a white sheepskin with red ‘wolf's teeth’; blue shabraque with yellow edging and royal cypher; blue valise with yellow edging.
Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
*1994 , Philip Haythornthwaite, British Cavalryman 1792-1815 , page 30, ISBN 1855323648.
*:a new universal pistol, one to be carried by each man, with a 9-inch barrel of musket-bore and an iron ramrod carried in the holster; the furniture was reduced to just a brass trigger guard (no butt-plate), and some were fitted with Nock's lock.
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies]] for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See [[:Category:Baby animals for more.
Unborn young; a fetus.
A person who is immature or infantile.
A term of endearment for a girlfriend or boyfriend or spouse.
(informal) A form of address to a man or a woman considered to be attractive.
A pet project or responsibility.
The lastborn of a family.
(archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.
Of a child: very young; of the age when he or she would be termed a baby or infant.
Of an animal: young.
Intended for babies.
Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn'', ''baby potatoes ).
To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
As nouns the difference between furniture and baby
is that furniture is large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively while baby is baby (infant).furniture
English
(wikipedia furniture)Noun
(en-noun)George Goodchild
citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
Usage notes
* Before the end of the nineteenth century, the plural furnitures existed in Standard English in both the U.S. and the U.K.; during the twentieth century, however, it ceased to be used by native speakers. * A single item of furniture, such as a chair or a table, is often called a (term).Hyponyms
* See alsoMeronyms
* drawer * wardrobeDerived terms
* occasional furniture * piece of furniture * street furnitureExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsbaby
English
Noun
(babies)- When is your baby due?
- Stand up for yourself - don't be such a baby !
- Hey baby , what are you doing later?
- The annual report has been my baby since September.
- See my new car here? I can't wait to take this baby for a drive.
Synonyms
* (young human being) babe, babby, babbie, infant * (immature or infantile person) big baby * (term of endearment) loveSee also
* gamete, zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo, fetusAdjective
(-) (used only before the noun)- a baby boy
- a baby elephant
- baby clothes
