Furniture vs. Furnishings — What's the Difference?

Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., chairs, stools, and sofas), eating (tables), and sleeping (e.g., beds). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks), or to store things (e.g., cupboards and shelves).

A piece of equipment necessary or useful for comfort or convenience.

The movable articles in a room or an establishment that make it fit for living or working.

Furnishings The furniture, appliances, and other movable articles in a home or other building.

(Archaic) Necessary equipment, as for a saddle horse or sailing ship.

Furnishings Wearing apparel and accessories.

Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

Plural of furnishing

The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.

Furniture generally.

Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.

The objects, other than furniture, that occupy an interior space.

(obsolete) An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.

Accessories used with a dress.

(firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.

Items of furniture and/or accessories by which something is equipped so as to be more useful, convenient, or comfortable.

The pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.

The furniture and appliances and other movable accessories (including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other building) livable.

(journalism) Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols).

Accessory wearing apparel.

(music) A type of mixture organ stop.

The instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable

(archaic) Draped coverings and hangings; bedsheets, tablecloths, tapestries, etc.

Accessory wearing apparel

(obsolete) Clothing with which a person is furnished; apparel, outfit.

(obsolete) Arms and armor, equipment of war.

(archaic) Equipment for work, apparatus, tools, instruments.

Condiments of a salad.

(obsolete) Stock, supply, stores, provisions.

(obsolete) Contents; that with which something is filled or stocked.

(bookselling) Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.

(obsolete) The action of furnishing or supplying.

(obsolete) The condition of being equipped, prepared, or mentally cultivated.

That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.

A mixed or compound stop in an organ; - sometimes called mixture.

Furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy;