Garnish vs. Garner — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Garnish and Garner
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Garnish
Decorate or embellish (something, especially food)
Garnish each serving with a dollop of sour cream
Garner
Gather or collect (something, especially information or approval)
The police struggled to garner sufficient evidence
Garnish
Serve notice on (a third party) for the purpose of legally seizing money belonging to a debtor or defendant.
Garner
A granary.
Garnish
A small amount of food used to decorate other food
Reserve a few watercress leaves for a garnish
Some flowers are edible and make attractive salad garnish
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Garner
To gather and store in a granary.
Garnish
To enhance in appearance by adding decorative touches; embellish
A coat that was garnished with a fur collar.
Garner
To acquire or amass
Garner awards.
Garnish
To decorate (prepared food or drink) with small colorful or savory items
Garnished the potatoes with parsley.
Garner
A granary.
Garnish
To seize (property such as wages) by garnishment.
Garner
A granary; a store of grain.
Garnish
To serve (someone) with papers announcing the garnishment of that person's property in order to satisfy a debt.
Garner
An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
Garnish
An ornamentation or embellishment, especially one added to a prepared food or drink for decoration or added flavor.
Garner
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
Garnish
To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
Garner
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
Garnish
(cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
A dish garnished with parsley
Garner
To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
Garnish
(archaic) To furnish; to supply.
Garner
(rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
Garnish
To fit with fetters; to fetter.
Garner
A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
Garnish
(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
Garner
To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
Garnish
(legal) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
Garner
A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed
Garnish
A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
Garner
Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
Garnish
Pewter vessels in general.
Garner
Store grain
Garnish
Something added for embellishment.
Garner
Assemble or get together;
Gather some stones
Pull your thoughts together
Garnish
Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
Garnish
(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
Garnish
Fetters.
Garnish
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
Garnish
Cash.
Garnish
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
All within with flowers was garnished.
Garnish
To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
Garnish
To furnish; to supply.
Garnish
To fit with fetters.
Garnish
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
So are you, sweet,Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
Matter and figure they produce;For garnish this, and that for use.
Garnish
Fetters.
Garnish
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.
Garnish
Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
Garnish
Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
Garnish
Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support;
His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt
Garnish
Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
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