equipmentn.
/ᵻˈkwɪpm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈkwɪpmənt/, /iˈkwɪpmənt/ 1.
a. The action or process of equipping or fitting out.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > action of providing or supplying > equipping or fitting out
furniture1529
reparelling1534
outsetting1561
equipage1598
arming1599
accoutring1653
equipping1704
equipment1748
outfit1748
outfitting1822
fixing out1883
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. i. 5 The equipment of the squadron was still prosecuted with as much vigour as ever.
1809 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 33/1 Lord Liverpool also defended the equipment of the expedition to Portugal.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. ii. 19 Mental training..as well as mental equipment.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 9/1 For the endowment and equipment of a Chair of Anatomy.
b. The state or condition of being equipped; the manner in which a person or thing is equipped. Also figurative.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > state or fact of being provided or supplied > state or fact of being equipped
furnish1604
equipage1609
equipment1793
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §123 Its equipment might suit the purposes of a Store-Vessel for our building service.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. x. iii. 423 An army which seemed irresistible from its numbers and equipment.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 89 The admirable equipment of their arctic ships carries London to the pole.
1863 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (ed. 2) 261 The institution did not spring in full maturity and equipment, like Pallas from the brain of Jove.
2.
a. concrete. Anything used in equipping; furniture; outfit; warlike apparatus; necessaries for an expedition or voyage. Used in the plural to indicate the articles severally, in the singular collectively.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
mountures1489
outred1489
accomplement?c1525
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
apparate?c1600
accomplishment1605
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
set-out1831
rigging1837
fixture1854
parapherna1876
clobber1890
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
outred1489
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
supellectile1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
materialsa1600
apparate?c1600
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
outrig1639
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
fixture1767
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
matériel1821
set-out1831
rigging1837
parapherna1876
clobber1890
1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 14 See my Crook, my Scrip, Box and other Parts of my equipment.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §275 To forward our equipments for rendering the house habitable.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. i. 46 The hunting equipments of the female archers.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 479 When you shall be in possession of your equipment of ordnance, etc.
1870 J. S. Howson Metaphors St. Paul i. 16 The helmet is..the brightest..part of the soldier's equipment.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 88 Sched. 1, Equipments which are primâ facie evidence of a Vessel being engaged in the Slave Trade.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 264 I include under the general term equipment all that must be actually present with the fighting portion of an army at any one moment.
b. figurative. Intellectual ‘outfit’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun] > intellectual resources
stock-in-tradea1806
equipment1841
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > [noun] > as intellectual 'outfit'
equipment1841
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. xliii. 165 A valuable portion of a student's [of the Bible] equipment.
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma xi. 342 A hardly less grotesque object in his intellectual equipment for his task than in his outward attire.
1885 M. Pattison Mem. 306 Our naive assumption that classical learning was a complete equipment for a great university.
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