Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of equipping or the state of being equipped.
- n. Something with which a person, an organization, or a thing is equipped.
- n. The rolling stock especially of a transportation system.
- n. The qualities or traits that make up the mental and emotional resources of an individual.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of equipping or fitting out, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or an expedition.
- n. Anything that is used in or provided for equipping, as furniture, habiliments, warlike apparatus, necessaries for an expedition or for a voyage, or the knowledge and skill necessary for a vocation: as, the equipments of a hotel, a ship, or a railroad; the equipment of a man for the ministry, or for the law.
- n. Specifically pl. Milit., certain of the necessaries for officers and soldiers, as horses, horse-appointments, and accoutrements; the clothes, arms, etc., of a soldier, or certain furnishings for artillery. Thus, the cannoneers' equipments are the priming-wire, vent-punch, thumb stall, primer-pouch, cartridge-pouch or haversack, and hausse-pouch. The equipments for a field-piece include the vent-cover, paulin, tompion, and strap; the other articles used in the service of cannon are called
implements .
Wiktionary
- n. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
- n. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc.; for carrying on business); horse equipment; infantry equipment; naval equipment; laboratory equipment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
- n. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; ; for carrying on business); horse
equipments ; infantryequipments ; navalequipments ; laboratoryequipments .
WordNet 3.0
- n. an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
Etymologies
- equip + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“_ A part of the equipment that is not individual to the lines or to the cord circuits, but which may, as occasion requires, be associated with any of them is called the _operator's equipment_.”
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
“I can give one very simple reason, the investment in equipment is far less, let alone the fact you can play basketball anywhere you can put a hoop.”
“Quite deliberately, at times, inferior, old fashioned and more expensive European equipment is bought, even where the more modern and effective equipment from the United States is actually cheaper.”
“No word on whether the equipment is an effective fame monster deterrent.”
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“The cost of the equipment is a onetime buy and will pay for itself soon pending how much you shoot.”
“Both suck, but I voted HD because our equipment is always broken, we carry far more products than we can reasonably fit on the shelves, and we're severly understaffed.”
“We understand the money we invest into this equipment is a tax write off.”
“Factoring in that this equipment is already installed, the Best Buy Magnolia home theater guy thought that this as an ok deal.”
“In radio installations, too, much of the equipment is amazingly compact in view of its intricacy.”
“I have examined it and gone through it, and the equipment is absolutely first-class.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘equipment’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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TRAN - road transport
Vocabulary of road transport and roadworthiness
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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-ment
result; product; instrument; means
pavement, adornment, measurement, disappointment, appointment, reappointment, government, management, development, department, movement, agreement and 40 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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Mass Nouns
From wikipedia: "In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement, and that they cannot combine with ...
advice, blood, cattle, equipment, furniture, grass, information, knowledge, mathematics, meat, money, music and 31 more...
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scottperezfox's list
Words that are awesome, for unexplained reasons.
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