Furnish vs Dine - 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.
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
(obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
(obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
As verbs the difference between furnish and dine
is that furnish is to provide a place with furniture, or other equipment while dine is to eat; to eat dinner or supper.As a noun furnish
is material used to create an engineered product.furnish
English
Noun
(es)- The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.
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English
Verb
(din)- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.