Word Meanings - GARNISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley. 3. To furnish; to supply. 4. To fit with fetters. Johnson. (more info) prepare, garnish, warn, F. garnir to provide, furnish, garnish, -- of German origin;
Additional info about word: GARNISH
To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley. 3. To furnish; to supply. 4. To fit with fetters. Johnson. (more info) prepare, garnish, warn, F. garnir to provide, furnish, garnish, -- of German origin; cf. OHG. warnon to provide, equip; akin to G. wahren to watch, E. aware, ware, wary, and cf. also E. warn. See Wary, -ish, 1. To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GARNISH)
- Adorn
- Beautify
- bedeck
- ornament
- decorate
- embellish
- deck
- garnish
- gild
- enrich
- Equip
- Accoutre
- invest
- prepare
- furnish
- arrange
- Set t Seat
- place
- locate
- situate
- settle
- fix
- build
- rest
- establish
- ground
- perpetuate
- stabilitate
- confirm
- strengthen
- determine
- appoint
- assign
- cast
- risk
- wager
- surround
- stud
Related words: (words related to GARNISH)
- EQUIPENSATE
To weigh equally; to esteem alike. - ASSIGNEE
In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - INVESTIGATION
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, - EQUIPOTENTIAL
Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential. - FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - DECORATE
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero - WAGERING
Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. See Wager policy, under Policy. - GARNISHMENT
1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the - ADORNINGLY
By adorning; decoratively. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PERPETUATE
To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke. - GARNISHEE
One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee - ADORNATION
Adornment. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - GARNISHER
One who, or that which, garnishes. - INVESTIGATIVE
Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - DEGARNISHMENT
The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.