Varnish vs Garnish - What's the difference?
varnish | garnish |
A type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film.
Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance.
* Macaulay
(by extension) A deceptively showy appearance.
* Shakespeare
To apply varnish.
To cover up with varnish.
To gloss over a defect.
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
* Spenser
(cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
To furnish; to supply.
(slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
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:
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(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.
As nouns the difference between varnish and garnish
is that varnish is a type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film while garnish is a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.As verbs the difference between varnish and garnish
is that varnish is to apply varnish while garnish is to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.varnish
English
Noun
(es)- the varnish of the holly and ivy
- And set a double varnish on the fame / The Frenchman gave you.
Verb
(es)Anagrams
* ----garnish
English
Verb
- All within with flowers was garnished .
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* garnishee * garnishment * garnishorNoun
(garnishes)- The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
- So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
- Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
- (Fielding)