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fur·nish F0369700 (fûr′nĭsh)tr.v. fur·nished, fur·nish·ing, fur·nish·es 1. a. To provide (what is needed or desired): furnished the snacks for the party.b. To provide furniture for: furnish a room.c. To provide something necessary or desired to; equip: furnished the students with pens.2. To have as an available or desirable feature: a courtyard that furnishes a fine view. [Middle English furnisshen, from Old French fournir, fourniss-, of Germanic origin; see per in Indo-European roots.] fur′nish·er n.Synonyms: furnish, equip, outfit, supply These verbs mean to provide with what is necessary for an activity or a purpose: furnished the team with new uniforms; equip a car with snow tires; had to outfit the children for summer camp; supplied the crew with hardhats.furnish (ˈfɜːnɪʃ) vb (tr) 1. to provide (a house, room, etc) with furniture, carpets, etc2. to equip with what is necessary; fit out3. to give; supply: the records furnished the information required. [C15: from Old French fournir, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German frummen to carry out] ˈfurnisher nfur•nish (ˈfɜr nɪʃ) v.t. 1. to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary appliances, esp. furniture. 2. to provide or supply (often fol. by with): The delay furnished me with extra time. [1400–50; < Old French furniss-, long s. of furnir to accomplish, furnish < Germanic] fur′nish•er, n. syn: furnish, appoint, equip refer to providing something necessary or useful. furnish often refers to providing necessary or customary objects or services that increase living comfort: to furnish a bedroom with a bed, desk, and chair. appoint, a more formal word, now usu. used in the past participle, means to supply completely with all requisites or accessories, often in an elegant style: a well-appointed hotel; a fully appointed suite. equip means to supply with necessary materials or apparatus for a particular action, service, or undertaking; it emphasizes preparation: to equip a vessel; to equip a soldier. furnish Past participle: furnished Gerund: furnishing
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I furnish | you furnish | he/she/it furnishes | we furnish | you furnish | they furnish |
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I furnished | you furnished | he/she/it furnished | we furnished | you furnished | they furnished |
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I am furnishing | you are furnishing | he/she/it is furnishing | we are furnishing | you are furnishing | they are furnishing |
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I have furnished | you have furnished | he/she/it has furnished | we have furnished | you have furnished | they have furnished |
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I was furnishing | you were furnishing | he/she/it was furnishing | we were furnishing | you were furnishing | they were furnishing |
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I had furnished | you had furnished | he/she/it had furnished | we had furnished | you had furnished | they had furnished |
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I will furnish | you will furnish | he/she/it will furnish | we will furnish | you will furnish | they will furnish |
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I will have furnished | you will have furnished | he/she/it will have furnished | we will have furnished | you will have furnished | they will have furnished |
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I will be furnishing | you will be furnishing | he/she/it will be furnishing | we will be furnishing | you will be furnishing | they will be furnishing |
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I have been furnishing | you have been furnishing | he/she/it has been furnishing | we have been furnishing | you have been furnishing | they have been furnishing |
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I will have been furnishing | you will have been furnishing | he/she/it will have been furnishing | we will have been furnishing | you will have been furnishing | they will have been furnishing |
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I had been furnishing | you had been furnishing | he/she/it had been furnishing | we had been furnishing | you had been furnishing | they had been furnishing |
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I would furnish | you would furnish | he/she/it would furnish | we would furnish | you would furnish | they would furnish |
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I would have furnished | you would have furnished | he/she/it would have furnished | we would have furnished | you would have furnished | they would have furnished | ThesaurusVerb | 1. | furnish - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"provide, supply, renderhydrate - supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance; "the bicyclists must be hydrated frequently"charge - energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery"date - provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"feed - feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"calk - provide with calks; "calk horse shoes"give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"fund - provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of intereststint, scant, skimp - supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"terrace, terrasse - provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house"dado - provide with a dado; "The owners wanted to dado their dining room"innervate - supply nerves to (some organ or body part)offer - make available or accessible, provide or furnish; "The conference center offers a health spa"; "The hotel offers private meeting rooms"signalise, signalize - provide with traffic signals; "signalize a busy intersection"extend, offer - make available; provide; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"stock - provide or furnish with a stock of something; "stock the larder with meat"buy in, stock up, stock - amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low"caption - provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawingtube - provide with a tube or insert a tube intoticket - provide with a ticket for passage or admission; "Ticketed passengers can board now"stock - supply with livestock; "stock a farm"stock - supply with fish; "stock a lake"rim - furnish with a rim; "rim a hat"fret - provide (a musical instrument) with frets; "fret a guitar"step - furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the terrace"rail - provide with rails; "The yard was railed"grate - furnish with a grate; "a grated fireplace"capitalise, capitalize - supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lendersalphabetize - provide with an alphabet; "Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages"wharf - provide with a wharf; "Wharf the mouth of the river"air-cool, air-condition - equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature; "Our house is not air-conditioned"uniform - provide with uniforms; "The guards were uniformed"railroad - supply with railroad lines; "railroad the West"partner - provide with a partnerbewhisker, whisker - furnish with whiskers; "a whiskered jersey"subtitle - supply (a movie) with subtitlesheadline - provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headlinematch - provide funds complementary to; "The company matched the employees' contributions"hobnail - supply with hobnailswive - provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wifevictual - supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war"cloy, surfeit - supply or feed to surfeitheat - provide with heat; "heat the house"seat - provide with seats; "seat a concert hall"seat - put a seat on a chairramp - furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium"arm - supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"interleave - provide (books) with blank leavesglass, glaze - furnish with glass; "glass the windows"crenel, crenelate, crenellate - supply with battlementscauseway - provide with a causeway; "A causewayed swamp"canal, canalise, canalize - provide (a city) with a canalbush - provide with a bushingbrattice - supply with a brattice, to ventilate minesfurnish - provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"slat - equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"berth - provide with a berthbed - furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"computerise, computerize - provide with computers; "Our office is fully computerized now"costume - furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | | 2. | furnish - provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"furnish, provide, supply, render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"refurnish - furnish with new or different furniture; "We refurnished the living room" |
furnishverb1. decorate, fit, fit out, appoint, provide, stock, supply, store, provision, outfit, equip, fit up, purvey Many proprietors try to furnish their hotels with antiques.2. supply, give, offer, provide, present, reveal, grant, afford, hand out, endow, bestow They'll be able to furnish you with the details.furnishverb1. To supply what is needed for some activity or purpose:accouter, appoint, equip, fit, fit out (or up), gear, outfit, rig, turn out.2. To relinquish to the possession or control of another:deliver, give, hand, hand over, provide, supply, transfer, turn over.Translationsfurnish (ˈfəːniʃ) verb1. to provide (a house etc) with furniture. We spent a lot of money on furnishing our house. 用家具裝備(房子) 用家具装备(房子) 2. to give (what is necessary); to supply. They furnished the library with new books. 提供 提供ˈfurnished adjectivea furnished flat. 備有家俱的 备有家具的ˈfurnishings noun plural furniture, equipment etc. The office had very expensive furnishings. 家俱設備 家具设备ˈfurniture (-tʃə) noun things in a house etc such as tables, chairs, beds etc. modern funiture. 家俱 家具furniture is a collective noun taking a singular verb: His furniture is rather old .furnish
furnish (something) for (someone or something)To give something to someone or something; to supply someone or something with something. Is the company going to furnish an apartment for you, or are you supposed to find one on your own? Don't worry, the finance department is going to furnish the budget projections for our project.See also: furnishfurnish (someone or something) with (something)To give something to someone or something; to supply someone or something with something. Is the company going to furnish you with an apartment, or are you supposed to find one on your own? Don't worry, the finance department is going to furnish us with the budget projections for our project.See also: furnishfurnish something for someone or something and furnish someone or something with somethingto provide something for someone or a group. I would be happy to furnish dinner for the visitors. I furnished the board of directors with the information.See also: furnishfurnish something for somethingto provide something to be used as something. Could you furnish the salad for our picnic? We can't furnish enough glassware for the whole party.See also: furnishfurnish
furnish[′fər·nish] (chemical engineering) In papermaking, the raw materials placed in a beater for producing paper pulp. furnishBy-products from primary wood manufacturing such as planer shavings, sawdust, and slabs; used as a raw material in fabricating particleboard, fiberboard, etc.furnish
Synonyms for furnishverb decorateSynonyms- decorate
- fit
- fit out
- appoint
- provide
- stock
- supply
- store
- provision
- outfit
- equip
- fit up
- purvey
verb supplySynonyms- supply
- give
- offer
- provide
- present
- reveal
- grant
- afford
- hand out
- endow
- bestow
Synonyms for furnishverb to supply what is needed for some activity or purposeSynonyms- accouter
- appoint
- equip
- fit
- fit out
- gear
- outfit
- rig
- turn out
verb to relinquish to the possession or control of anotherSynonyms- deliver
- give
- hand
- hand over
- provide
- supply
- transfer
- turn over
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