Appliance vs Utility - What's the difference?
appliance | utility |
The act of applying; application.
An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end (often specified).
Specifically: A non-manual apparatus or device, powered electrically or by another small motor, used in homes to perform domestic functions (household appliance) and/or in offices.
An attachment, some equipment (or - piece) to adapt another tool or machine to such specific purpose
(lb) A compliance
The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
Something that is useful.
(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
(business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
As nouns the difference between appliance and utility
is that appliance is the act of applying; application while utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness.appliance
English
(wikipedia appliance)Noun
(en noun)- When the boy hid father's feared cane, his bum soon found out the hard way how many sturdy appliances''' at home can double as perfectly painful spanking ' appliance
Derived terms
() * home appliance * major appliance * small applianceReferences
*utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.