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Furnish vs Betail - What's the difference?

furnish | betail |

As verbs the difference between furnish and betail

is that furnish is (lb) to provide a place with furniture, or other equipment while betail is to furnish with a tail.

As a noun furnish

is material used to create an engineered product.

furnish

English

Noun

(es)
  • Material used to create an engineered product.
  • * 2003 , Martin E. Rogers, Timothy E. Long, Synthetic Methods in Step-growth Polymers , Wiley-IEEE, page 257
  • The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.

    Verb

  • (lb) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an 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 house.}}
  • *
  • *:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished , and was very clean. ΒΆ 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.
  • :
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *: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.
  • betail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a tail.
  • betailed and bepowered
  • (jocular) To take the tail off.