appliance
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:
- 2.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of applying.
1658, Elias Ashmole, The Way to Bliss, London: Nath. Brook, Book 2, Chapter 2 “Of Health,” p. 75, […] there be three things, and every one full of under-branches belonging to this Art and way of Healing: The first is knowledge of the Diseases: the second is the Remedies against them: and the third of the appliance of Remedies; All which should be traversed in this Discourse.
Đồng nghĩa: application
- 3.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A means of eliminating or counteracting something undesirable, especially an illness.
c. 1775, Thomas Hull, Moral Tales in Verse, London: George Cawthorn, 1797, Volume 2, “The Advantages of Repentance,” pp. 161-162, With charitable care They rais’d him up, and, by appliance meet, Quicken’d the pulse, and bade it flow anew.
Đồng nghĩa: cure, medicine, remedy
- 4.
(countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable)Willing service, willingness to act as someone wishes.
Đồng nghĩa: compliance
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Recorded since the 1560s. From the English apply + -ance.