Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: dynamic, mechanism, setup
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noun
A complex machine or instrument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: device, instrument, machinery
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noun
An assortment of tools and instruments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective
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Synonyms: tools, gear, equipment
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noun
A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: machine
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A vehicle used for emergency response.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: firefighting, government
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noun
Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: gymnastics, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: rhythmic gymnastics
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noun
A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, textual-criticism
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noun
equipment designed to serve a specific function
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: setup
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: equipment
Narrower terms: aerator, burner, cascade liquefier, centrifuge, extractor, separator, chemical reactor, condenser, duplicator, copier, electrograph, generator, heat pump, heliograph, incubator, brooder, instillator, Kipp's apparatus, lighting, nuclear reactor, reactor, optical bench, pendulum, purifier, reformer, semaphore, sequencer, sequenator, soda fountain, still, submersible, telegraph, telegraphy, titrator, X-ray machine
noun
(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: body part
Narrower terms: auditory apparatus
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *perh3- Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h3o- Proto-Italic *paro- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *parāō Latin parō Latin apparō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin apparātuslbor. English apparatus Learned borrowing from Latin apparātus. Doublet of apparat.
Across languages
152 source translations are retained for this English entry.
