What's the difference between afford and furnish?

Afford


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
  • (v. t.) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age.
  • (v. t.) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.
  • (v. t.) To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) afforded significant protection only at the very highest concentration (5.0 mM); inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) did not protect against loss of latency at any concentration.
  • (3) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.
  • (4) Worth an estimated $17.5bn each, they can afford it.
  • (5) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (6) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
  • (7) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
  • (8) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
  • (9) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (10) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
  • (11) Based on the economics of most countries in Africa, their Health Budgets can afford mostly the non-opioid and strong opioid drugs in more or less adequate quantities.
  • (12) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (13) It is hoped that up to 3,200 of the proposed new properties will be affordable homes and that the initiative will support up to 32,000 jobs.
  • (14) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
  • (15) Santander's new mortgage range complements this, putting our relationship with our customers at the heart of our business and ensuring they get the right mortgage for them – one they can afford and which meets their needs."
  • (16) Uterine lavage affords the potential for non-invasive human blastocyst recovery, with obvious potential for preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
  • (17) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
  • (18) Streptozotocin and the haloethyl nitrosoureas, chlorozotocin and bis-chloroethylnitrosourea were less efficient in inducing HPRT-deficient mutants and a smaller degree of protection was afforded by the transfected genes.
  • (19) Fusing equimolecular amounts of 3-oxaspiro[5.5]undecane-2.4-dione with certain amino compounds afforded the corresponding N-substituted azaspirodiones.
  • (20) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.

Furnish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
  • (v. t.) To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.
  • (n.) That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This article reviews the evidence (a) that finger-loop domains have been highly conserved during evolution, (b) that they furnish one of the fundamental mechanisms for regulating gene expression, and (c) that a metal ion (e.g., Zn++) is required for binding of finger-loops to DNA and for their biological functions.
  • (2) Even before she gets to the Timeless premiere, the Mail Online has run two news stories on her that day: the first detailing what she was wearing in the morning, the second furnishing a grateful world with the news that she'd subsequently changed her outfit and taken her sunglasses off.
  • (3) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
  • (4) Acoustical holography has the potential for providing complementary diagnostic information which, after further technical developments, may furnish clinically useful information.
  • (5) These data furnish further evidence of the local action of antidiabetic biguanides on the intestinal wall, including its hormonal activity.
  • (6) This allows the computer to furnish with the help of an algorithm the percentage of nystagmus suppressed by ocular fixation.
  • (7) The resulting protocol for a clinical study of vestibular drugs is a document that clarifies the debated points in the field, and above all furnishes guidelines for establishing uniformity in clinical studies.
  • (8) Two examination methods, the audial and the visual, furnish information on the flow within the fistula, the quality and lumen of the created anastomosis, blood yield, formation and position of collateral circulation.
  • (9) With this study the authors want to furnish the nurses with one more reference source to guide their actions in caring for the patient with manifestation of reality withdrawal.
  • (10) In addition, the government is offering help for small groups involved in tourism, reinstating the favourable tax rules for furnished holiday lettings.
  • (11) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
  • (12) The ultrasonic course furnishes, in the ease of a normal treated tumor during pregnancy, besides parameters about the development of fetus also informations about the changes of size and position of the tumor.
  • (13) The information furnished by the workers was compared with that present in the company's registers.
  • (14) Cultured newborn rat aortic SMC furnish an in vitro model for the study of several aspects of SMC differentiation and possibly of mechanisms leading to the establishment and prevention of atheromatous plaques.
  • (15) If Facebook is a home, it's furnished by Ikea, in calming blue and white: minimalist, reassuringly boring.
  • (16) Muramic acid, a component of the muramyl peptide found only in the cell walls of bacteria and blue-green algae, furnishes a measure of detrital or sedimentary procaryotic biomass.
  • (17) We find Hocking sitting in her tiny, sparsely furnished apartment in Austin, Minnesota.
  • (18) The best results are furnished by 1-naphthylamine dervatives.
  • (19) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
  • (20) It is shown that with correct indication scintigraphy can furnish early diagnosis and in many cases additional valuable information.