furnish
Syllables: fur·nishUK/ˈfɜːnɪʃ//ˈfɝnɪʃ/
furnish noun: material used to create an engineered product.
Noun
furnish (plural furnishes)
- 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.2003, Martin E. Rogers, Timothy E. Long, “Synthetic Methods in Step-growth Polymers”, in IEEE, Wiley, page 257
Verb
furnish (third-person singular simple present furnishes, present participle furnishing, simple past and past participle furnished)
- To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
- 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 sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58
- 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 colour the flock-paper on the walls.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...
- To supply or give (something).
- […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and...1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin; London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3
- [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.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 67
- To supply (somebody) with something.
- The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
- For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were not furniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them.1669 August 25, “[An Accompt of Some Books.] III. Ottonis Tachenii Hippocrates Chymicus. Venetiis in 12º.”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and...
Proper noun capitalized: Furnish
Furnish (plural Furnishes)
- A surname.
furnish meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
furnish in Tamil
- அமைத்துக் கொடு, அமைத்துக்கொடு, அறைகலன் அமை, அளி, இருக்கையமை, கொடு
furnish in Urdu
- بہم پہنچانا
furnish in Bengali
- আসবাবপত্র দিয়ে সজ্জিত করা, সরবরাহ করা
furnish in Malayalam
- സജ്ജീകരിക്കുക, അലങ്കരിക്കുക, എത്തിച്ചുകൊടുക്കുക, സംഭരിച്ചുകൊടുക്കുക
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- furnish in Kannada
- ಸಜ್ಜುಗೊಳಿಸು, ಅಲಂಕರಿಸು, ಅಣಿಮಾಡು, ಅಳವಡಿಸು
- furnish in Odia
- ସଜାଡ଼ିବା sajāṛibā, ସଜାଇବ sajāiba
- furnish in Sanskrit
- विधा vidhā, संयुज् saṃyuj
- furnish in Arabic
- أْثَث ʔṯaṯ
- furnish in Vietnamese
- cung cấp
Examples of furnish in a sentence
- Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- But his writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown...
- Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons, […]1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Narrating how Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and how They Sang and...
Forms of furnish
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | furnishes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | furnishes |
| present participle | furnishing |
| past participle | furnished |
| past | furnished |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Furnishes |
Origin of furnish
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 *frumjaną (“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.
English surname, variant of Furness. Also a variant of Furneaux, Furnace.
Words formed from furnish
Words that rhyme with furnish
Questions about furnish
- What does furnish mean?
- Furnish means material used to create an engineered product.
- What is furnish in Tamil?
- Furnish in Tamil is அமைத்துக் கொடு, அமைத்துக்கொடு, அறைகலன் அமை. See Furnish meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use furnish in a sentence?
- Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
- What part of speech is furnish?
- Furnish can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce furnish?
- Furnish is pronounced /ˈfɝnɪʃ/ (US).
- What is the plural of furnish?
- The plural of furnish is furnishes.
Words near furnish in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: furnish (page history and authors); Furnish (page history and authors); furnish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); furnish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); furnish (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); furnish (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); furnish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ସଜାଇବ (Odia) (page history and authors); विधा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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