Tableware vs Hardware - What's the difference?
tableware | hardware |
The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal.
Fixtures]], equipment, tools and [[device, devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
(informal) Equipment.
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(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
* 1952 , "Binary Arithmetic", R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician , vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.
(technology) Electronic equipment.
Metal implements.
(slang) A firearm.
As nouns the difference between tableware and hardware
is that tableware is the cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal while hardware is fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.tableware
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(-)- He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware , so he went to the hardware store.
- military hardware
- Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
