The difference between Armchair and Furniture

When used as nouns, armchair means a chair with supports for the arms or elbows, whereas furniture means large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.


Armchair is also adjective with the meaning: remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

check bellow for the other definitions of Armchair and Furniture

  1. Armchair as a noun:

    A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

  1. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

    Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

    Examples:

    "These days I'm an armchair detective."

  2. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

    Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports.

    Examples:

    "He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal [[blog]] on the internet."

    "After the American football game, the armchair [[quarterback]]s talked about what they would have done differently to win, if they had been star athletes instead of out-of-shape old men."

  1. Furniture as a noun (now usually, _, uncountable):

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

    Examples:

    "The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet."

    "How much furniture did they leave behind?"

    "A chair is furniture. Sofas are also furniture."

    "They bought a couple of pieces of furniture."

  2. Furniture as a noun:

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

  3. Furniture as a noun:

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

  4. Furniture as a noun (firearms):

    The stock and forearm of a weapon.

  5. Furniture as a noun (printing, historical):

    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.

  6. Furniture as a noun (journalism):

    Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.

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