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We stock a wide range of domestic appliances, including fridges, freezers and dishwashers.我们提供多种家用电器，包括冰箱、冰柜和洗碗机。
We recommend that an engineer services your gas appliance annually.
Don't plug in an electrical appliance with wet hands - you could get an electric shock.
Are all of the kitchen appliances included in the price of the house?
Modern appliances such as washing machines, vacuum cleaners and steam irons make housework easier.

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appliance | American Dictionary

appliance
noun[ C ]
us/əˈplɑɪ·əns/
a device, machine, or piece of equipment, esp. an electrical one that is used in the home, such as a refrigerator or washing machine:
electrical/home/household/kitchen appliances

appliance | Business English

appliance
noun[ C ]
uk /əˈplaɪəns/us
a device, machine, or piece of equipment, especially an electrical one that is used in the house, such as a cooker or washing machine:
There should be incentives for installing energy-efficient appliances.
domestic/kitchen/household appliances
an appliance company/retailer/maker

Examples of appliance

appliance
Effective treatment most often relies on nasal continuous positive airway pressure, but poor tolerance or compliance sometimes leads to treatment with oral appliances or surgery.
Families became smaller and somewhat more egalitarian and, helped by the increasing availability of household appliances and their longer schooling, children's contributions to housework reduced.
Many now separate some items, such as appliances and batteries, but others still engage in open burning.
With appropriate communications links built into the house a range of household appliances and systems can be monitored and controlled.
The caller was assumed to be a non-speaking person, trying to interact with the appliance repair person at the maintenance company.
Here such items are grouped in the 'miscellaneous' category, which also included provision of home helps and surgical appliances.
An experimental situation was devised in which a subject was telephoned in order to arrange the repair of a household appliance.
That evolution adapted itself to the circumstances of these three different cities, for the street light was a most versatile appliance and symbol.
Consider the belief that bringing electrical appliances into the bath is dangerous because of certain properties of electricity.
Another disadvantage of percutaneous nephrostomy is the inconvenience of having an external appliance and tubing.
Costs were escalating and there was concern about misuse of stoma appliances.
The whole appliance is continually vented with forced air to prevent ozone accumulation in the path of the beam.
The most common type of oral appliance advances the jaw, and with it the tongue, to reduce upper airway obstruction during sleep.
Controllers using fuzzy logic have been incorporated in cameras and in such things as washing machines and other domestic electrical appliances.
The transaction chosen for the experiment was that of arranging the repair of a household appliance over the telephone.
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Collocations withappliance

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