What's the difference between furnish and stake?

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.

Stake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
  • (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
  • (v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
  • (v. t.) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.
  • (v. t.) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
  • (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
  • (v. t.) To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
  • (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.
  • (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
  • (2) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
  • (3) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
  • (4) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
  • (5) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
  • (6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
  • (7) But Mr Bolloré, with a 29% stake in Aegis, vowed to keep calling shareholder meetings until he gets his way.
  • (8) Xenophon’s letter says if State Grid is also allowed to own a huge stake in Ausgrid it raises serious questions about market dominance.
  • (9) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (10) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
  • (11) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
  • (12) Buffett’s fortune was briefly boosted by another $5.7bn purely on his personal stake in Kraft Heinz, whose shares rose 10%, while Unilever shares rose 13.4% to a record high.
  • (13) Despite its 25% stake, BP said it would be wrong to assume that it would obtain a quarter of the expected $100bn worth of revenues.
  • (14) Most of the money, says WDM, was used to buy shares in Bumi , the troubled London-listed firm co-founded by financier Nat Rothschild that owns large stakes in some of the biggest mining projects in East Kalimantan.
  • (15) They will not be able to vote out the non-execs because Ashley has that vast stake, but there are occasions when principles are important and this September's AGM will be one of them.
  • (16) Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more.
  • (17) Rupert Murdoch has a battle on his hands to win over leading shareholders in BSkyB, who scent the opportunity for a high-stakes game of brinkmanship and are pushing for a premium price of well over £10bn for full control of the pay-television company.
  • (18) The future of our children, grandchildren and beyond is at stake.
  • (19) To maintain its 30% stake the Co-op would need to stump up another £120m, increasing its already high debt levels.
  • (20) Two years later, the privately held Lovefilm acquired Amazon's UK and German movie rental business, with the online retail giant taking a stake in the business as part of the deal.