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equipment Definition

equip·ment (ē kwip′mənt, i-)

noun

  1. an equipping or being equipped
  2. whatever a person, group, or thing is equipped with; the special things needed for some purpose; supplies, furnishings, apparatus, etc.
  3. goods used in providing service, esp. in transportation, as the rolling stock of a railroad
  4. one's abilities, knowledge, etc.

equipment Synonyms

equipment

n.

material, materiel, tools, machinery, facilities, implements, utensils, supplies, apparatus, gear, outfit, kit, furnishings, equipage, appliances, paraphernalia, belongings, devices, accessories, appurtenances, attachments, extras, conveniences, accouterments, contraptions, articles, tackle, rig, fittings, trappings, contrivances, gadgets, fixtures, movables, accompaniments, provisions, armor, fixings*, stuff*, things*; see also machine 1.

equipment Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • specialize: To do this holes are first drilled into the concrete using specialized drilling equipment.
  • install: Installing appropriate equipment will also be of utmost importance to a company or organization.
  • purchase: Spread the cost of purchasing equipment - online leasing form.
  • buy: Every penny received goes directly to buy equipment or to fund research or patient amenities.
  • inject: Drug use is linked with risks such as accidents while someone is intoxicated, overdose, or infection from sharing injecting equipment.

Adjective modifier

  • electrical: What can you do to help make electrical equipment safe?
  • protective: Do I have to provide my employees with protective equipment?
  • electronic: She also tries not to indulge in keeping up with the latest electronic equipment.
  • state-of-the-art: Fitness Deep in the bowels of the building Gymtonic is a series of high tech rooms, furnished with state-of-the-art fitness equipment.
  • audio: The Department has a number of cameras and audio equipment for both studio and location work.
  • ancillary: We specialize in design, installation, servicing and maintenance of diesel powered generating units and ancillary equipment.

Modifies a noun

  • manufacturer: The site includes an excellent set of links to equipment manufacturers.
  • hire: All wet suit and equipment hire is included in the price.
  • supplier: Alphin Pans Ltd UK based one stop pizza equipment suppliers shop with online ordering.

Noun used with modifier

  • specialist: The culprits used specialist equipment to force off an iron grid covering a window at the back of the bank building.
  • fitness: Fitness Deep in the bowels of the building Gymtonic is a series of high tech rooms, furnished with state-of-the-art fitness equipment.
  • computer: Our biggest asset at Gardiner & Theobald is not our office, our company cars or our computer equipment.
  • telecommunications: A generic term that covers both information technology ( computer hardware and software ) and telecommunications equipment and services.
  • recording: No cameras, video or recording equipment is allowed in the Live Hall.
  • safety: The Products Page lists not only security marking and safety equipment but also a wide range of branding irons depicting company names and Logos.
equipment Quotes

A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and Wellington several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact aboutthefilmmakeras opposed toanyother artist: he can never afford his own tools.

—Welles, (George) Orson

And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Ihave eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like anostrich and long, limp hair.You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

—Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis