What's the difference between garnish and varnish?

Garnish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
  • (v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
  • (v. t.) To furnish; to supply.
  • (v. t.) To fit with fetters.
  • (v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.
  • (n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
  • (n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
  • (v. t.) Fetters.
  • (v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Up to 80% of inmates’ earnings, however, can be garnished to go toward room and board, victim restitution, child support and mandatory savings.
  • (2) Even where meat or fish appears it is not as the star of the show but, in a neat reversal, more as a garnish.
  • (3) Garnish the squares with the whipped cream and pecans, if you like.
  • (4) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
  • (5) In January, the WA corrective services minister, Joe Francis, described serving jail time to pay down fines as the “soft option” and announced “tougher” penalties, including the option of garnishing welfare payments to pay off unpaid fines.
  • (6) The Heritage Assessment Tool, in combination with questions relating to health and illness beliefs and practices was helpful in helping informants remember events in their childhood and also in garnishing health and illness beliefs and practices.
  • (7) Looking at it, there was nothing special about this one – a plain roll in a plastic package, no salad or garnish, a little too much mayo.
  • (8) Sprinkle on top of your curry as garnish and serve with rice.
  • (9) Divide between plates and garnish with a little lick of extra virgin olive oil, if you like.
  • (10) He said the state government was also in talks with the federal government about “having the authority to garnish wages from welfare”, saying “that may be one way of trying to get money off people”.
  • (11) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
  • (12) Photograph: Zaytoun Roast parsnip and carrot salad with freekeh and a yoghurt dressing Recipe by Jane Baxter Serves 4-6 500g parsnips 500g carrots 30g butter melted 1 tbsp Zaytoun olive oil 100g smokey freekah Dressing: 200ml yoghurt juice and zest of 1 orange 1 clove garlic crushed pinch ground cumin and cardamom 75g pitted dates finely chopped 1 red chilli finely chopped 1 tsp honey 1 tbsp chopped mint Bunch of watercess Salt and pepper To garnish: pomegranate seeds , extra mint and za’atar Pre–heat oven 190C.
  • (13) Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
  • (14) 8 To serve, flood four plates with the sauce; put two red mullet fillets on each plate, skin-side uppermost, and garnish with sprigs of rosemary.
  • (15) Here are a few ideas to get you started sautéed courgette flowers chorizo with potatoes shredded chilli-smoked chicken slow-cooked pork confit of pork poached and shredded chicken, cooked in mouthwatering moles stuffed chillies beans gently cooked with spices and aromatics grilled fish Arrange the table with taco fillings, salsas and garnishes of your choice.
  • (16) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
  • (17) Top with the broad beans and garnish with the remaining chopped mint.
  • (18) Dishes are delicately garnished with flavour-packed herb snippets and bright pink or purple edible flowers.
  • (19) Everything else is garnish, and all of it leaves you feeling either one-dimensionally frenetic or complicatedly wretched.
  • (20) There is a batter base, an obligatory cabbage filling and quite strict garnishes – but otherwise, the rest of the ingredients come down to what's at hand.

Varnish


Definition:

  • (n.) A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.
  • (n.) That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.
  • (n.) An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.
  • (n.) To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.
  • (n.) To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prolonged coating duration from 24 hours to 1 week did not increase uptake and penetration of fluoride from both varnishes.
  • (2) The varnish seemed to be better with respect to the posology as the total dose of miconazole is minimal and only one application is necessary.
  • (3) In methods A and B the round biopsy field was bordered by copalite varnish, while method C utilized a scotch tape border.
  • (4) The unesterified resins are mainly used in paper size and the esters in printing inks, varnishes and adhesives.
  • (5) A clinical and radiographic examination of all children was performed immediately prior to the first application of varnish and 1 year later.
  • (6) Three applications of 2.3% Duraphat were slightly more effective than any of the other varnish treatments, but one treatment with 2.3% varnish was not more effective than treatments with 1.1% varnish.
  • (7) The preliminary treatment with a copal-ether varnish (Copalite) was of insignificant value.
  • (8) Forty molar and premolar teeth had non-retentive cavities prepared and restored with amalgam using (1) copal varnish (control), (2) a pin, (3) Amalgambond or (4) Panavia-Ex.
  • (9) Duraphat varnish was topically applied for 6 hours to the air dried surfaces of ten teeth (group 1).
  • (10) The sealing abilities of three therapeutic varnishes were compared with that of a conventional copal varnish in vitro under Tytin silver amalgam restorations.
  • (11) British Cycling under the spotlight after Jess Varnish allegations Read more Opening up right now are big opportunities for women’s sport and its sponsors.
  • (12) After storage in 100% humidity at 37 degrees C for 48 h, the root surfaces were coated with nail varnish (except at the apex) and placed in 2% methylene blue dye solution and centrifuged at 3 x g for 3 min.
  • (13) The caries preventive effect of topical application of fluoride varnish (Duraphat), ferric-aluminum-fluoride solution (FeAlF) and chlorhexidine gel was compared in 2-yr clinical study.
  • (14) The varnish also serves as a guide to facilitate removal of excess resin beyond the cavosurface margin.
  • (15) After the long-term administration of doxilane-diolane, cresacin, antioxidant S-1 and fluorine varnish to mongrel albino rats and mice no difference in the level of spontaneous tumours both in the control and experimental groups of animals was observed.
  • (16) Fluoride varnishes are clinically effective but have not been shown to be superior to topical solutions or gels.
  • (17) Since then, the ink, manufactured only by Mysore Paints and Varnish, has been used in every local and national Indian election, as well as in key elections across the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • (18) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
  • (19) Southern viewers may occasionally require a translator, for moments such as when one girl explains she doesn't want to take off her nail varnish because her hands will look "proper scratty" (scruffy).
  • (20) When cavity varnish use was compared with no use of cavity varnish, significantly less microleakage was noted with the nonburnished control, single-burnish, and double-burnish techniques utilizing the cavity varnish.