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furnish

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furnish
—furnisher, n.
/ferr"nish/, v.t.
1. to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
2. to provide or supply (often fol. by with): The delay furnished me with the time I needed.
n.
3. paper pulp and any ingredients added to it prior to its introduction into a papermaking machine.
[1400-50; late ME furnisshen < OF furniss-, long s. of furnir to accomplish, furnish < Gmc; cf. OHG frumjan to provide]
Syn. 1, 2. rig, outfit, deck out. FURNISH, APPOINT, EQUIP all refer to providing something necessary. FURNISH emphasizes the idea of providing necessary or customary services or appliances in living quarters: to furnish board; a room meagerly furnished with a bed, desk, and a wooden chair. APPOINT (now found only in WELL-APPOINTED) means to furnish completely with all requisites or accessories or in an elegant style: a well-appointed house. EQUIP means to supply with necessary materials or apparatus for some service, action, or undertaking; it emphasizes preparation: to equip a vessel, a soldier.

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Фильмы

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  • The Man From the Fifth Avenue., 1986 — A trip of the Soviet film uniti around New York with a coomon American named Josiph Mori, who joined the group of outcasts.
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