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Oblige vs Furnish - What's the difference?

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Oblige is a related term of furnish.


As verbs the difference between oblige and furnish

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

As a noun furnish is

material used to create an engineered product.

oblige

English

Verb

(oblig)
  • To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
  • I am obliged to report to the police station every week.
    {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , Tho' he was some time awake before me, yet did he not offer to disturb a repose he had given me so much occasion for; but on my first stirring, which was not till past ten o'clock, I was oblig'd to endure one more trial of his manhood.}}
  • To do someone a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
  • He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.
  • *
  • To be indebted to someone.
  • I am obliged to you for your recent help.
  • To do a service or favour.
  • The singer obliged with another song.

    Derived terms

    * disoblige

    Usage notes

    "Obliged" has largely replaced "obligate"; the latter being more common in the the 17th through 19th centuries.The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1996)

    Anagrams

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    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. ¶ 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.