What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Garnish vs Burnish - What's the difference?

garnish | burnish |

As verbs the difference between garnish and burnish

is that garnish is to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish while burnish is to make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.

As a noun garnish

is a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.

garnish

English

Verb

  • To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
  • * Spenser
    • All within with flowers was garnished .
  • (cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
  • To furnish; to supply.
    • By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
  • (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
    • (Johnson)
  • (legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.

    • Derived terms

    * garnishee * garnishment * garnishor

    Related terms

    * garrison * garment

    Noun

    (garnishes)
  • A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  • Pewter vessels in general.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
    • The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
  • Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
  • * Prior
    • Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
  • (cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
  • (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
  • (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
    • (Fielding)

    External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    *

    burnish

    English

    Verb

  • To make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.
  • * Dryden
    • The frame of burnished steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.
  • * Cunningham
    • Now the village windows blaze, / Burnished by the setting sun.
  • To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
  • * Dryden
    • A slender poet must have time to grow, / And spread and burnish as his brothers do.
  • * Herbert
    • My thoughts began to burnish , sprout, and swell.

    Synonyms

    * (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, buff