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Definition: Upholstery |
UpholsteryNoun1. Covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture. 2. The craft of upholstering. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "upholstery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant, materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde; equipment, equipmentage; appointments, furniture, upholstery; chattels; paraphernalia; (belongings). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bantam, Connecticut. Arthur Metz was a cutter in a large Bridgeport upholstery shop before coming to the Warren McArthur plant, in April 1941. He's a native of St. Louis, Missouri, having come east in 1929. An expert with the electric knife, Metz daily dr. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Sure the upholstery is shot. |
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Business | The city of Nablus has the largest number of wooden furniture workshops and outlets in the PA. Most of these local shops produce one or two models using different upholstery colors and finishes. (references) | |
The trends are mostly gray shades and royal blue. Plain fabrics without decor sell more easily in Germany (of the total upholstery fabrics sales, only 20 percent have have clearly defined patterns). (references) | ||
This report covers the home textile sector including finished products such as bed linen, table linen, bed products, towels, carpets and rugs, blankets, curtains, blinds, household textiles as well as carpeting, wallpaper and wall coverings, and decorative and upholstery fabrics. (references) | ||
Economic History | Belgium | Some fifty U.S. upholstery textile manufacturers exhibit at Decosit. (references) |
Belgium | Major subsectors are household decorative fabrics and upholstery textiles. (references) | |
Belgium | The annual Decosit trade show in Belgium has become the major international event in the upholstery textile sector. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | Men work in printing services, car repair, tailoring, metal work, and leather and upholstery work. (references) |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | Military officers inside the compound and police near the upholstery factory did not intervene. (references) |
Indonesia | On March 29, 2 strikers were killed and 10 others injured when mobs attacked a car upholstery company. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Upholstery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Upholstery" is used about 210 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 210 | 20,939 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | ScS Upholstery plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "upholstery": leather upholstery ♦ upholstery material ♦ upholstery needle. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "upholstery": re-upholstery. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "upholstery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tapiceri (hangings, seating, tapestry, wall covering, wallpaper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مواد التنجيد, تنجيد (lining, padding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тапицерство, тапицерия, тапицировка, тапицирани мебели, килими, завеси, плат за тапициране. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 室内装饰". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vycpávka (filler, pad, padding, stuffing, wadding), èalounická práce, èaloun (tapestry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | polstring (cushion, cushioning, garnish, lining, pad, padding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bekleding (cover, protective cover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اثاثه یالوازم داخلی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huonekalukangas (upholstery material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tapisserie, garniture intérieure, garniture. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Polstermöbel (upholstered furniture), Polsterung (padding, upholstering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γέμιση καθίσματος (garnish, lining), παραπετάσματα, εσωτερική επένδυση καθίσματος (garnish, lining), επιπλόστρωση, ταπετσαρία (wallpaper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רפי"" (carpet, fender, lining), רפו" (covered, covering, padding, upholstered, wadding), רפ"ות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kárpitosmunka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bulsak (mattress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tappezzeria (paper, tapestry, wallpaper), imbottitura (bolster, pad, padding, stuffing, wadding), guarnitura interna (garnish, lining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 内装 (interior, interior design). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ないそう (inner layers, interior, interior design, internal strife, interpolation, secret report to the emperor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 실내 장식'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coodagh liarey (leather upholstery), coodagh liareagh (leather upholstery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olsteryuphay tapeçaria (arras, drapery, woolwork), ofício de estofador, forro interno (garnish, lining), estofamento (stuffing), artigos de estofador, acolchoamento (padding, wadding). (various references) tapiserie (tapestry), tapiţerie (upholsterer's). (various references) обивка. (various references) tapetarstvo, tapaciranje. (various references) tapicería (seating, tapestry). (various references) tapetserararbete, stoppning (darn, darning, pad, padding, stuffing, wadding), möbelklädsel, klädsel (attire, clothes, clothing, dress). (various references) döşemelik kumaş (drapery, soft furnishings), döşemecilik, döşeme (appointments, floor, floor covering, furnishings, laying, pavement, planking). (various references) ремесло оббивальника, оббивка (casing, overcast). (various references) nghề l m nệm ghế, nghề buôn bán nệm ghế m n thm nệm ghế m n thm đ" để nh"i nệm, nghề bọc ghế. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Upholstery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apholstery, uffolstery, uphoistery, upholestry, upholstry, upholtery, uplhoster, upolstery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "upholstery" (pronounced upō"lsterē) |
| 4 | -s t er ē | blustery, history, mastery, mystery, protohistory. |
| 3 | -t er ē | adultery, alimentary, artery, battery, buttery, complimentary, contradictory, coterie, directory, documentary, eatery, effrontery, factory, flattery, glittery, introductory, jittery, lottery, notary, olfactory, parliamentary, peremptory, perfunctory, pottery, premonitory, rectory, refractory, rotary, rudimentary, satisfactory, sedimentary, splintery, supplementary, testamentary, trajectory, unsatisfactory, valedictory, victory, watery. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-p-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: southerly, upholster. | |
-2 letters: elytrous, eutrophy, hostelry, outyelps, poulters, prostyle, protyles, superhot, urostyle. | |
-3 letters: elusory, helotry, holster, hostler, hotspur, hurleys, hurtles, hustler, leprosy, leprous, outyelp, pelorus, petrols, petrous, peyotls, phytols, plusher, posture, pothers, poulter, poultry, pouters, proteus, protyle, protyls, pylorus, replots, shortly, shouter, souther, sporule, spouter, spurtle, strophe, thorpes, troupes, tupelos, typhose, typhous, uphroes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-p-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: polyurethanes. | |
+4 letters: heterophyllous, leukodystrophy, peritrichously. | |
+5 letters: phenylthioureas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 68 6F 6C 73 74 65 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101100 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p h o l s t e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 0068 006F 006C 0073 0074 0065 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55827481788586718491 |
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