FURNISH
supply, provide, render, furnish
(verb) give something useful or necessary to; “We provided the room with an electrical heater”
furnish
(verb) provide or equip with furniture; “We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
furnish (plural furnishes)
Material used to create an engineered product.
Verb
furnish (third-person singular simple present furnishes, present participle furnishing, simple past and past participle furnished)
(transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
(transitive, figuratively) To supply or give (something).
(transitive, figuratively) To supply (somebody) with something.
Proper noun
Furnish (plural Furnishes)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Furnish is the 19997th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1339 individuals. Furnish is most common among White (95.07%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Fur"nish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furnished; p. pr. & vb. n. Furnishing.] Etym: [OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - ish.]
1. 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. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim. iii. 17,
2. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number. Is. lxv. 11. His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. Macaulay.
Fur"nish, n.
Definition: That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply. [Obs.] Greene.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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