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
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Armchair as a noun:
A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Furniture as a noun:
The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
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Furniture as a noun:
Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
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Furniture as a noun (firearms):
The stock and forearm of a weapon.
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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.
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Furniture as a noun (journalism):
Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.