Furnish vs Display - What's the difference?
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Material used to create an engineered product.
* 2003 , Martin E. Rogers, Timothy E. Long, Synthetic Methods in Step-growth Polymers , Wiley-IEEE, page 257
(lb) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
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*: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.
To supply or give.
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*:His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.
*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.119:
*:he 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.
(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
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, chapter=1 To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
(military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
(obsolete) To discover; to descry.
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As nouns the difference between furnish and display
is that furnish is material used to create an engineered product while display is a show or spectacle.As verbs the difference between furnish and display
is that furnish is (lb) to provide a place with furniture, or other equipment while display is (obsolete) to spread out, to unfurl.furnish
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Noun
(es)- The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.
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(en verb)- The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display , / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
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- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.