appliance
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Your appliance is all and even more than you claim for it.
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- noun A device or instrument designed to perform a specific function, especially an electrical device, such as a toaster, for household use. See Synonyms at tool.
- noun A dental or surgical device designed to perform a therapeutic or corrective function.
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- Would Sidney Poitier ever take a sofa or a large kitchen appliance from a store without paying? — Middlesex
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Your appliance is all and even more than you claim for it.
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured -
Ease of Use - This appliance is absolutely remarkable.
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The general construction of the appliance is as follows: The casing or receiver is a steel cylinder, which has a pivot at the bottom to receive the step for an upright hollow shaft, to which a second cylinder of smaller diameter is attached.
— Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students -
For smaller birds the appliance is a little rack about four inches high with uprights a few inches apart, between each of which is hung a noose.
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
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