Furnish vs Proffer - 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.
An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.
Essay; attempt.
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
Indefinite plural of .
Furnish is a related term of proffer.
As nouns the difference between furnish and proffer
is that furnish is material used to create an engineered product while proffer is an offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.As verbs the difference between furnish and proffer
is that furnish is (lb) to provide a place with furniture, or other equipment while proffer is to offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.furnish
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Noun
(es)- The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.
Verb
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* proffre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- (Milton)