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furnish

'fә:niʃ6 senses · 59 ms
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noun/ˈfɝnɪʃ//ˈfɜːnɪʃ/
  1. 1

    Material used to create an engineered product.

    • The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.
verb/ˈfɝnɪʃ//ˈfɜːnɪʃ/
  1. 1

    To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.transitive

    • The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sur
    • Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in col
  2. 2

    To supply or give (something).figurativelytransitive

    • [H]e took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater.
    • But his writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.
  3. 3

    To supply (somebody) with something.figurativelytransitive

    • The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.

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