Glossary
Twenty-four terms. Where a definition mentions this catalog, the count comes from the same listing text as every other page.
Words in quotation marks are the sellers’ own, quoted from the listings
- Flat pack
- Furniture shipped in pieces in a box and put together after delivery. None of the listings here uses the phrase, though several print
easy assembly
ortool-free assembly
.Related: The desk - Tool-free assembly
- The seller’s phrase for assembly that needs no tools. It appears on one listing, and the site treats it as a claim about effort and describes no assembly.Related: The shoe rack
- Particle board
- A panel of cellulosic particles pressed together with resin, which is how federal composite wood rules define particleboard. No listing in this catalog uses the term.Related: What the top is made of
- MDF
- Medium-density fiberboard. Federal composite wood rules define it as a panel of cellulosic fibers dry-formed and pressed from a resinated mat. No listing in this catalog uses the term or the abbreviation.
- Wood grain finish
- A surface made to look like wood.
Wood Grain
appears in one dresser title, and the site does not read a look as a material.Related: What the top is made of - Fabric drawer
- A drawer or bin of fabric that slides into a frame. Every dresser listing here describes fabric drawers or bins, and each counts them in the title.Related: The dresser
- Non-woven fabric
- Fabric made by bonding fibers rather than weaving them. It appears in this catalog as
non-woven shelves
on a Kitsure shoe rack.Related: Standing Shoe Racks - Steel frame
- The seller’s name for the material of a frame.
Steel frame
appears on six listings, often aftersturdy
orstable
; the site repeats the phrase and says nothing about the frame.Related: Sturdy - Tier
- One level of a rack or shelf unit, as counted in the title. Every shoe rack title here gives a tier count, and on a shoe rack the site does not treat that count as a capacity.Related: Capacity in pairs, drawers and tiers
- Cube
- An open square compartment in a storage unit, counted the way a tier is. Two bookcase listings count cubes rather than tiers.Related: Bookcases
- Expandable rail
- A frame section that slides to change a rack’s width. The listings here never say rail; they print
expandable
,an adjustable width
or a range in inches.Related: Stackable and expandable - Stackable unit
- A piece described as able to sit on another of its kind. Six listings print
stackable
, and none prints the height of a stack. - Weight capacity
- A load figure printed by the seller for a piece or a part of it. Four of the fifty-two listings in this catalog print one.Related: Weight capacity
- Shelf load
- A load figure for a single shelf, tier, drawer or top. No listings in this catalog print one.Related: The bookcase
- Anti-tip hardware
- A part packed with a piece to keep it from tipping, often by connecting it to a wall. One listing here prints anti-tip and none name such a part. This site gives no instructions for fitting one.Related: Anti-tip and What holds it to the wall
- Tip-over
- A piece of furniture tipping over. The federal standard for clothing storage units concerns it; this site counts the words listings print about it and assesses no piece.Related: Anti-tip
- Swivel
- A seat that turns on its base. Chair listings print
swivel
ora 360 degree swivel
, on mesh chairs and criss-cross seats alike.Related: Home Office Desk Chairs - Caster
- A wheel on a chair base. The listings say
wheels
rather than casters, and a criss-cross chair is stated withno wheels
.Related: The chair - Gas lift
- The adjustable column under many desk chair seats. No listing here uses the term; the chair listings print
adjustable height
instead. - Lumbar support
- A seller phrase for a feature of a chair backrest. Nine chair listings print it, and none attaches a figure or a standard to it.Related: Ergonomic and lumbar support
- Mesh back
- A chair back of open fabric stretched over a frame. Seven chair listings print mesh in the title or the description.
- Sit-stand desk
- A desk whose height changes by motor or by hand. The listings here print
electric height adjustment
, and the site says nothing about working at any height.Related: Home Office Desks - Memory preset
- A saved height on an electric desk. Each electric desk listing here prints a preset count, and the site does not say what any preset should be.Related: The desk
- Zapatera
- Spanish for a shoe rack or shoe cabinet, plural zapateras. The listing text supplied for this catalog is in English and does not use it.Related: The shoe rack