{
  "id": "furniture.home",
  "term": "furniture",
  "sense": "home",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "furniture",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "items that are matter, have a structure, and are placed in space for function",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "space.extent",
      "function.purpose",
      "items.object",
      "put.placement"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter, structure, and placement in space together enable a function",
    "novel_properties": [
      "functional utility",
      "spatial occupation",
      "designed arrangement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Eames Lounge Chair, designed in 1956, supports seated posture using molded plywood and leather.",
      "domain": "design"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ikea's 2023 flat-pack catalog shipped 200 million copies to distribute disassembled shelving units globally.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orients its racks of equipment to defined habitable zones in microgravity.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "items.object",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bed.furniture"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "furniture"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: function.purpose, items.object, and put.placement to align with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-furniture.home"
}