Appliance in a sentence as a noun

I worked at a place doing network appliance stuff.

The thing geeks don't realize is that Apple doesn't sell "hardware" - they sell an appliance.

What if appliance makers go bankrupt and your dishwasher no longer receives patches?

Corey Doctorow explains more fully:"When we turn a computer into an appliance.

Think of all the other services you don't do yourself, or even that your grandparents do but which now come in the form of a household appliance.

They want to turn your limitless and powerful computer into a home appliance...like a blender or electric razer.

It is now a dedicated appliance, not a general-purpose iPad.

This is a page for their content delivery appliance package, and it's not really an appropriate place to discuss all the stuff that Netflix does for FreeBSD.

Best solution here would appear to be never sync that iPad again, back it up to iTunes, disable its Wi-Fi, and consider it her speech appliance.

After years of paying through the nose for a Google search appliance that actually wasn't very good, my company decided to replace it with Solr, and it was a really fun project.

This should be priority #1 for any company trying to bring internet-connected appliances to the mainstream.

Like the one where they tested if you could get electrocuted through an appliance in a lightning storm... they actually spent time troubleshooting the wiring in the house, and explained the problem.

We're not making a computer that runs only the "appliance" app; we're making a computer that can run every program, but which uses some combination of rootkits, spyware, and code-signing to prevent the user from knowing which processes are running, from installing her own software, and from terminating processes that she doesn't want.

Appliance definitions

noun

a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

See also: contraption contrivance convenience gadget gizmo gismo widget

noun

durable goods for home or office use