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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COVERT

(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”


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