Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for.
- v. To supply; give: "The story of Orpheus has furnished Pope with an illustration” ( Thomas Bulfinch).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To provide; supply: used with with, and having a personal object: as, to furnish a family with food; to furnish a person with money for some purpose.
- To provide for use; make or afford a provision of; supply; yield: with a thing as object: as, to furnish arms for defense; Normally furnishes the best draft-horses; this fact furnishes a strong argument against your theory.
- To provide with what is proper or suitable; supply with anything; fit up or fit out; equip: as, to furnish a house, a library, or an expedition; to furnish the mind by study and observation.
- Specifically In ceramics, to ornament with pieces molded separately and afterward attached to the object, as a vase with figures of flowers, or the like.
- To provide one's self with equipment; equip one's self.
- To provide furniture for a room or a house.
- In racing slang, to take on flesh; improve in strength and appearance.
- n. Provision; outfit; furniture; supply.
- n. An obsolete variant of furnace.
Wiktionary
- n. Material used to create an engineered product.
- v. To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
- v. figuratively To supply or give.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn
- v. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford.
- n. obsolete That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give something useful or necessary to
- v. provide or equip with furniture
Etymologies
- From Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir (Modern French fournir), from Germanic, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjanan (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan ("to perform, provide"), Old High German fruma ("utility, gain"), Old English fremu ("profit, advantage"), Old English fremian ("to promote, perform"). More at frame, frim. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English furnisshen, from Old French fournir, fourniss-, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Would the possession of the document as written, along with the original document as it appeared in code, furnish an individual with the necessary information to break the code?”
“It cost $18 million to design, build and furnish, which is about $3 million more than the average for the newly built branches.”
The Washington Post: One of the best things for D.C. in decades
“Can even the Muses of burlesque and slang furnish such an instance?”
“These novices have yet to learn that fluency of speech and beauty of expression furnish no test of gospel ministry; for although it may be conveyed in 'the words which man's wisdom teacheth,' if it be not in the demonstration of the spirit and of power, 'it is utterly worthless in the Divine sight.”
“And it is only when this illusion is created in the theatre, that it is possible for the public to enjoy that vicarious experience of life, to furnish which is the one great function of the drama.”
“Sam wants him to "furnish" him, -- i.e., to advance him food and clothing for the year, and perhaps seed and tools, until his crop is raised and sold.”
“He notices conjugal relations among them, such as furnish richest home blessings.”
“On the other three it showed itself just sufficiently to "furnish" the building and diversify its aspect without in any way encumbering it.”
“In determining what course to pursue in such a contingency, the Surgeon must follow the light of his own judgment, as no general rules can be established on the subject, and each case prevents features sui generis such as furnish the clue to the proper method of treatment.”
“I must add that Charles Lloyd must 'furnish' his own bed-room.”
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Words that end in "-ish" but aren't a...
embellish, flourish, garnish, rubbish, nourish, admonish, punish, finish, blemish, abolish, accomplish, parish and 41 more...
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devon.varoz
furnish, revolver, mezzanine, use, chiefly, fatherland, space, pastoral, egg, whitely, disco, squalor and 1 more...
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Verb ish
English verbs that end in -ish.
Most of these come from Old French stems that end in 'iss' like floriss-, brandiss-, distinguiss-, etc.
Exceptions are: Fish, Wish, Dish (f...flourish, brandish, vanish, astonish, perish, polish, nourish, famish, accomplish, admonish, banish, blemish and 24 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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To Supply or Furnish (with)
Verbs meaning supply or furnish (with)
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consanguineous, worldly, naiveté, enshroud, pernicious, prerogative, traitor, fledgling, vengeance, provision, furnish, quarrel and 94 more...
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based upon per- indo-european root
turnverein, veer, frump, far, per, paramount, paramour, parget, parterre, parvenu, perissodactyl, palanquin and 133 more...
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glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2263 more...
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spartan, cram, quill, furor, rampart, enervate, placate, agitate, galvanize, spur, pricker, infuriate and 273 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 111
mortgage, pay off, expenses, furnish, from now on, make do, needless, get a move on, blow one's top, give me a break, good life, blizzard and 3 more...
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Important words for TOEIC
furnish, altitude, allude, indifferent, attain, avert, diverge, appraise, appease, casualty, pacify, languish and 30 more...
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