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Furnish vs Fixture - What's the difference?

furnish | fixture |

As nouns the difference between furnish and fixture

is that furnish is material used to create an engineered product while fixture is (legal) something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it.

As verbs the difference between furnish and fixture

is that furnish is (lb) to provide a place with furniture, or other equipment while fixture is to furnish with, as, or in a fixture.

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.}}
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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.
  • :
  • * (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.

    • Related terms

    * furniture

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    fixture

    English

    (wikipedia fixture)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it.
  • A regular patron of a place or institution.
  • A lighting unit; a luminaire.
  • (sports) A scheduled match.
  • (computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
  • A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.

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    Verb

    (fixtur)
  • To furnish with, as, or in a fixture
    • The device is available in both handheld and fixtured models.
  • (sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule a match
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 30, author=AAP, title=Zimbabwe cricket head Chingoka refused entry to Australia, work=Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=Other items to be discussed include fixturing from 2012 onwards, preparations for this year's scheduled Champions Trophy and the Indian Cricket League's bid for recognition from the ICC. }}