What's the difference between deliver and furnish?

Deliver


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
  • (v. t.) To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
  • (v. t.) To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
  • (v. t.) To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
  • (v. t.) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
  • (v. t.) To discover; to show.
  • (v. t.) To deliberate.
  • (v. t.) To admit; to allow to pass.
  • (v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (3) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (4) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (5) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (6) UN internal investigators delivered a report to the then secretary general, Kofi Annan, but it was not published.
  • (7) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (8) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
  • (9) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
  • (10) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
  • (11) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
  • (12) The nurse is in an optimal position to plan and deliver a program and determine its effectiveness.
  • (13) Endoscopic papillotomy was performed which resulted in a polypoid tumour delivering itself into the wound followed by a free flow of bile.
  • (14) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
  • (15) We want to work with others to deliver the firepower needed to challenge the Eurosceptic establishment.
  • (16) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
  • (17) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
  • (18) Radiation-dose predictions derived from biodistribution studies indicate that a higher tumor dose may be delivered using the SA method than with either 131I-NP-4 IgG or F(ab')2 alone.
  • (19) HFV was delivered at frequencies (f) of 3, 6, and 9 Hz with a ventilator that generated known tidal volumes (VT) independent of respiratory system impedance.
  • (20) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.

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.