Furnish
['fɜːnɪʃ] or ['fɝnɪʃ]
Definition
(verb.) provide or equip with furniture; 'We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style'.
Editor: Maggie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
(v. t.) To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.
(n.) That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. provide, supply, equip, fit out, fit up.[2]. Give, bestow, present, contribute, afford.
Editor: Natasha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Supply, provide, equip, afford, yield, bestow, purvey, give
ANT:Withhold, withdraw, dismantle
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Definition
v.t. to fit up or supply completely or with what is necessary: to equip (with).—adj. Fur′nished stocked with furniture.—n. Fur′nisher.—n.pl. Fur′nishings fittings of any kind esp. articles of furniture &c. within a house: (Shak.) any incidental part.—n. Fur′nishment.
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Examples
- Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Having a ready-made existence on their own account, their relation to mind is exhausted in what they furnish it to acquire. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It would furnish another reason for Wrayburn's purposeless walks, and it might be. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Plants thus serve to keep the atmosphere free from an excess of carbon dioxide and, in addition, furnish oxygen to the atmosphere. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The two gentlemen, and some others, were so generous and kind as to furnish me with provisions, and see me on board. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- So very fond of you as Miss Crawford is, it is most natural that she should tell you enough of her own feelings to furnish a tolerable guess at mine. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Nothing happened, however, to interfere with the successful running of the station, and for twenty years thereafter the same two dynamos continued to furnish light in Sunbury. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yes, but such care could have been furnished by any one of us. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They furnished an operator, Edward Hadley. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was likewise furnished with a felt hat well garnished with turnpike tickets; and a carter's whip. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Quantity of Water Furnished by a River. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mrs. Rouncewell, who holds the light, is giddy with the swiftness of his eyes and hands as he starts up, furnished for his journey. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I believe I and my family have also had the honour of furnishing some entertainment in the same grave place, said my guardian composedly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Furnishing was necessarily expensive; but then it had to be done only once. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is good reason to believe that Dr. Franklin had no inconsiderable share at least in furnishing materials for this work. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I must see what I can give them towards furnishing their house. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Mr. Edison has built a very interesting machine, and he has the opportunity of making a valuable contribution to the electrical arts by furnishing authentic accounts of its capabilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The proteids are the building foods, furnishing muscle, bone, skin cells, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It furnishes profitable amusement to the young, and satisfactory aid to the nervous and paralytic. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The variety of peoples and environments, their contrast with familiar scenes, furnishes infinite stimulation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some of the water gradually took the form of rivers, lakes, streams, and wells, as now, and it is this original supply of water which furnishes us all that we have to-day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The boiler house, which furnishes the steam for heating the entire plant, is located in the rear of these buildings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Unfortunately, however, this latter furnishes the chief materials of the imitative arts. Plato. The Republic.
- It furnishes each with a single meaning according to its service in carrying on the whole enterprise. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Association does not create impulses or affection and dislike, but it furnishes the objects to which they attach themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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