EQUIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equipped mean? 

• EQUIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective EQUIPPED has 4 senses:

1. provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate

2. provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)

3. prepared with proper equipment

4. carrying weapons

  Familiarity information: EQUIPPED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate

Synonyms:

equipped; equipt

Context example:

a ship equipped with every mechanical aid to navigation

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 2

Meaning:

Provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)

Synonyms:

equipped; furnished

Context example:

a completely furnished toolbox

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 3

Meaning:

Prepared with proper equipment

Synonyms:

equipped; fitted out

Context example:

equipped for service in the Arctic

Similar:

prepared (made ready or fit or suitable beforehand)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Carrying weapons

Synonyms:

equipped; weaponed

Similar:

armed ((used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms)

 Context examples 

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Each of the others was similarly equipped.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was similarly equipped, and, following the stream, I made my way into the open air.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He is better equipped for a rough expedition of this sort than one would imagine at first sight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It could be equipped with LEDs or a type of nanogenerator that harnesses mechanical energy from the fluid flow to produce light and heat, which would reduce the overall cost.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They then equipped horses with both zebra-striped and unstriped cloths and again observed that the flies had trouble landing on the striped surfaces.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

BAT is a thermogenic organ equipped to dissipate energy in the form of heat through the so-called “uncoupling protein”.

(Increasing the level of physical activity is found not to improve the functioning of brown adipose tissue, University of Granada)

M3, aboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organization, was uniquely equipped to confirm the presence of solid ice on the Moon.

(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)

A mobile unit staffed and equipped to collect blood donations for a blood bank.

(Bloodmobile, NCI Thesaurus)