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EQUIPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Carrying weapons
Synonyms:
equipped; weaponed
Classified under:
Similar:
armed ((used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate
Example:
a ship equipped with every mechanical aid to navigation
Synonyms:
equipped; equipt
Classified under:
Similar:
accoutered; accoutred (provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military))
armored; panoplied (equipped with the complete arms and armor of a warrior)
helmeted (equipped with or wearing a helmet)
outfitted (equipped with appropriate wearing apparel and accessories)
prepared (equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources)
transistorised; transistorized ((of an electronic device) equipped with transistors)
visored (having or provided with a visor or a visor of a particular kind)
Antonym:
unequipped (without necessary physical or intellectual equipment)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)
Example:
a completely furnished toolbox
Synonyms:
equipped; furnished
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
appointed (provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind))
fitted out; outfitted (furnished with essential equipment for a particular occupation or undertaking occupation)
stocked; stocked with (furnished with more than enough)
volumed (furnished with volumes)
well-appointed; well-found (having a full array of suitable equipment or furnishings)
Domain category:
article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Prepared with proper equipment
Example:
equipped for service in the Arctic
Synonyms:
equipped; fitted out
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
prepared (made ready or fit or suitable beforehand)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb equip
Context examples:
I really am a most troublesome companion to you both, but I hope I am not often so ill-equipped.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A medical facility equipped and staffed to provide prolonged care to patients, usually in cases when rehabilitation or total patient care are necessary.
(Medicare Certified Long Term Care Hospital, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
A room in a health care facility equipped for the performance of surgical operations and procedures.
(Operating Room, NCI Thesaurus)
Well, thus equipped, we all set out—even the fellow with the broken head, who should certainly have kept in shadow—and straggled, one after another, to the beach, where the two gigs awaited us.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Animals that evolved in environments subject to large-scale habitat-altering events such as fires and storms are better equipped to handle forest fragmentation caused by human development than species in low-disturbance environments.
(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)
A facility equipped and competent to conduct scientific experiments, observations, tests, investigations, and/or to manufacture chemicals or medical products.
(Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)
These services use specially trained people and specially equipped facilities.
(Emergency Medical Services, NIH)
A health care organization staffed, equipped, and licensed for performing chemotherapy, biological therapy and associated oncology care.
(Chemotherapy Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Nearing Earth's atmosphere seven years from now, a capsule containing the sample and equipped with a heat shield will detach from the main OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and enter Earth's atmosphere.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
With a shrug of the shoulders, but with the warmest admiration and pride at heart for this woman, I equipped her with the broken oar and took another for myself.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
