Furnish vs Equip - 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. 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.
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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 furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
To dress up; to array; accouter.
To prepare (someone) with a skill
Equip is a synonym of furnish.
In transitive terms the difference between furnish and equip
is that furnish is to provide a place with furniture, or other equipment while equip is to prepare (someone) with a skill.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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(Webster 1913)Verb
- Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
- The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.