What's the difference between furniture and upholder?
Furniture
Definition:
(v. t.) That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
(v. t.) Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
(v. t.) The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.
(v. t.) The masts and rigging of a ship.
(v. t.) The mountings of a gun.
(v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.
(v. t.) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.
(v. t.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
(2) The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of ageing on textiles (17.5 months), air temperature (25-45 degrees C) and relative air humidity (RH) (45-85%) on the CH2O release rate from 6 kinds of drapers and furniture coverings.
(3) Individually adapted, functional office furniture is not only capable of making physically or sensorily handicapped persons more independent but also enhances their performance.
(4) The furniture of flats, was often not approximated for disabled persons.
(5) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(6) The rooms are simple, with stone floors, heavy local wood furniture and colourful bedspreads, but they do have aircon and TV.
(7) Tom Dillon, originally from Hull, runs Dillons furniture clearance shop.
(8) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
(9) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
(10) This is someone who once stole a three-bedroom house's worth of furniture from Ikea by bypassing the checkouts but still arranged to have it all delivered by them, personally, to her door.
(11) They then wrote essays justifying their ideas for the new classroom; provided a budget, using a variety of maths skills; created an inventory of furniture, lighting and other items; producing a 3D scale model of their classroom and a 2D computer-generated picture.
(12) Self-assembly kitchen wall units are being added to the basket to improve coverage of furniture, while basin taps are being removed.
(13) On the fringes was the then young radical furniture and textiles designer Terence Conran .
(14) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
(15) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(16) Occupational groups with an increased SNC risk include furniture, boot and show workers, and workers in U.S. countries heavily involved in both petroleum and chemical manufacturing; specific agents have not been identified with certainty.
(17) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(18) Leaders who are particularly nervy end up rearranging the Whitehall furniture to try to keep everyone happy – removing energy from trade and industry, or science from education, to create new fiefdoms; or adding such responsibilities back in to try to convince ministers disgruntled at not being shuffled up that they are instead being promoted through the expansion of their empire.
(19) Furnished flats came with wartime utility furniture, cheap government-designed beds and wardrobes and chests of drawers that no one else wanted.
(20) It is a truth universally acknowledged that there’s a deficit in Swedish furniture stores’ hot takes on social media practises.
Upholder
Definition:
(n.) A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.
(n.) An undertaker, or provider for funerals.
(n.) An upholsterer.
(n.) One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They were not innocent, non-political children; these were young people who worked to actively uphold multicultural values.
(2) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
(3) Its role in keeping the peace, the prevention and detection of crime and upholding the rule of law has been distorted by the primacy given to the colla tion of intelligence by special branch.
(4) The Mormon religion is one of many conservative faith groups upholding theological opposition to same-sex relationships amid widespread social acceptance and the US supreme court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
(5) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(6) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(7) For the US and the EU, which claim to uphold principles over interests, this contradictory policy and their silence over the Saudi intervention in Bahrain is particularly harmful.
(8) It challenges the meaning of the union it purports to uphold.
(9) He said Trump would announce his choice for supreme court justice next week and promised it would be someone “who will uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our constitution in the tradition of the late and great Justice Antonin Scalia”.
(10) David Cameron should scrap a planned vote to reduce the number of MPs by 50, Nick Clegg said as he accused the Conservatives of failing to uphold the coalition agreement on House of Lords reform .
(11) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(12) UN Watch finds it troubling that the UK refuses to deny the London-Riyadh vote-trade as contemplated in the Saudi cable, nor even to reassure the public that their voting complies with the core reform of the UNHRC’s founding resolution, which provides that candidates be chosen based on their human rights record, and that members be those who uphold the highest standards of human rights.” A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman said: “As is standard practice with all members, we never reveal our voting intentions or the way we vote.
(13) Achievements of the Council and the Court So I want no one here to doubt the British commitment to defending human rights … nor the British understanding that the Council of Europe, the Convention and the Court have played a vital role in upholding those rights.
(14) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
(15) The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which deals with complaints that have not been settled to a consumer's satisfaction by a lender, is currently receiving up to 400 PPI complaints an hour and upholding seven in 10 cases in the consumer's favour.
(16) Our results point to the possible existence of a mechanism of reproductive compensation serving to uphold the genetic diversity of PI genes.
(17) The result is that society places a high value on conformity and expressions of individuality are frowned upon; there is a strong emphasis on upholding social “norms” and keeping up appearances – in public if not necessarily in private.
(18) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
(19) A significant part played by poly-unsaturated fatty acids, against the background of moderate protein loads (up to 3.0-4.0 g per kg of the child's body weight per day) in upholding the calcium homeostasis is suggested.
(20) These “temporary exclusion orders” appear to be a neat solution; by offering suspected jihadi fighters strict conditions on return, the government is upholding its primary duty to protect the public while maintaining its commitments in international law which say it must not create stateless beings.