Apparatus vs. Apparel — What's the Difference?

The technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose

Clothing, especially outer garments; attire.

The complex structure of a particular organization or system

A covering or adornment

A collection of notes, variant readings, and other matter accompanying a printed text

To clothe or dress.

An appliance or device for a particular purpose

To adorn or embellish.

An integrated group of materials or devices used for a particular purpose

Clothing.

The totality of means by which a designated function is performed or a specific task executed, as in a system of government.

(figurative) Aspect, guise, form.

A political organization or an underground political movement. Also called apparat.

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

(Physiology) A group or system of organs that collectively perform a specific function or process

(nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

The critical and source material, usually including notes and a glossary, that accompanies a scholarly edition of a text.

(transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.

The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.

(transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

A complex machine or instrument.

(transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental

(collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.

A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.

The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

(gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.

To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.

(video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”

To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

Things provided as means to some end.

To dress or clothe; to attire.

Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

Clothing in general;

Equipment designed to serve a specific function

Provide with clothes or put clothes on;

(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function;