furnishing

noun

1. furnishings,
   1. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room.
   2. articles or accessories of dress: men’s furnishings.
2. that with which anything is furnished.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
2. to provide or supply (often followed by with): The delay furnished me with the time I needed.

noun

3. paper pulp and any ingredients added to it prior to its introduction into a papermaking machine.

verb (tr)

1. to provide (a house, room, etc) with furniture, carpets, etc
2. to equip with what is necessary; fit out
3. to give; supplythe records furnished the information required

v.

mid-15c., from Middle French furniss-, present participle stem of furnir “furnish, accomplish,” from Old French fornir (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fornire, alteration of *fromire, from West Germanic *frumjan “forward movement, advancement” (cf. Old High German frumjan “to do, execute, provide”), from Proto-Germanic *fram- “forwards” (see from). Meaning “to provide” (something) is from 1520s. Related: Furnished; furnishing.