name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
Material used to create an engineered product.
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verb
To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
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verb
To supply or give (something).
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To supply (somebody) with something.
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verb
give something useful or necessary to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: supply, provide, render
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Broader terms: give
Narrower terms: hydrate, charge, date, feed, calk, fund, stint, skimp, scant, terrace, terrasse, dado, innervate, offer, signalize, signalise, extend, stock, buy in, stock up, caption, tube, ticket, rim, fret, step, rail, grate, capitalize, capitalise, alphabetize, wharf, air-cool, air-condition, uniform, railroad, partner, bewhisker, whisker, subtitle, headline, match, hobnail, wive, victual, surfeit, cloy, heat, seat, ramp, arm, interleave, glass, glaze, crenel, crenelate, crenellate, causeway, canal, canalize, canalise, bush, brattice, furnish, slat, berth, bed, computerize, computerise, costume, bottom, rafter, tool, key, fuel, provision, purvey, yield, give, afford, equip, fit, fit out, outfit, transistorize, transistorise, upholster, cleat, coal, corbel, cornice, constitutionalize, copper-bottom, curtain, gate, index, joint, articulate, pour, pump, fire, flood, oversupply, glut, toggle, patch, water, leverage, tap, top, top out, reflectorize, reflectorise, retrofit, border, edge, machicolate, sanitate, hat, theme, kern, headquarter, shelter
verb
provide or equip with furniture
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Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish
Narrower terms: refurnish
History
English surname, variant of Furness. Also a variant of Furneaux, Furnace.
From Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir (Modern French fournir), from Germanic, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), Old High German fruma (“utility, gain”), Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at frame, frim.
Across languages
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