different between accessory vs garnish

English

Alternative forms

• (noun): accessary

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s?s??i/, /æk?s?s??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s?s(?)?i/, /æk?s?s(?)?i/
• Homophone: accessary

Etymology 1

First attested in 1550s. From Middle English accessorie, from Medieval Latin access?rius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

Adjective

accessory (comparative more accessory, superlative most accessory)

1. Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or being contributory. Said of people and things, and, when of people, usually in a bad sense

2. (law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself.
3. Present in a minor amount, and not essential.

Synonyms

• (having a secondary function): accompanying, contributory, auxiliary, subsidiary, subservient, additional, acceding

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

• (legal): First attested in 1414.
• (fashion): First attested in 1896.

Noun

accessory (plural accessories)

1. Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

     the aspect and accessories of a den of banditti

2. (fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
3. (law) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
4. (art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.

Synonyms

• (something that belongs to part of another main thing): accompaniment, addition, attachment, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
• (one who assists in or instigates an offense): abettor, accomplice, ally, coadjutor, accessary

Derived terms

• accessory before the fact
• accessory after the fact
• accessoryship
• Cambodian accessory

Descendants

• ? Hebrew: ????????????? (aksésori)
• ? Japanese: ?????? (akusesar?)
• ? Korean: ???? (aekseseori)

Translations

References

• accessory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English garnischen, from Old French garniss-, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir, guarnir, warnir (“to provide, furnish, avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish”), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnjan (“to refuse, deny”) and *warn?n (“warn, protect, prepare, beware, guard oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijan? (“to worry, care, heed”) and Proto-Germanic *warn?n? (“to warn”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to defend, protect, cover”). Cognate with Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent from, avert”) and warnian (“to warn, caution, take warning, take heed, guard oneself against, deny”). More at warn.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????n??/

Verb

garnish (third-person singular simple present garnishes, present participle garnishing, simple past and past participle garnished)

1. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 253,^[2]

     And all within with flowres was garnished,

   • 1710, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 163, 25 April, 1710, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 165,^[3]

     […] as that admirable writer has the best and worst verses of any among our English poets, Ned Softly has got all the bad ones without book, which he repeats upon occasion, to shew his reading, and garnish his conversation.

   • 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 14,^[4]

     […] the whip […] was garnished with a massive horse’s head of plated metal.

2. (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.

   a dish garnished with parsley

3. (archaic) To furnish; to supply.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Job 26.13,^[5]

     By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, Part One, Chapter 3,^[6]

     […] the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home.

4. (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
5. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
6. (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
   • 1966, Langston Hughes, “The Twenties: Harlem and Its Negritude” in Christopher C. De Santis (ed.), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 9, p. 473,

     When the editorial board of Fire met again, we did not plan a new issue, but emptied our pockets to help poor Thurman whose wages were being garnished weekly because he had signed for the printer’s bills.

Derived terms

• garnishee
• garnishment
• garnishor

Related terms

• garrison
• garment

Translations

Noun

garnish (plural garnishes)

1. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
2. Pewter vessels in general.
3. Something added for embellishment.

   Synonyms: decoration, ornament

   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 1, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 333,^[7]

     First Poets, all the World agrees,

     Write half to profit, half to please

     Matter and figure They produce;

     For Garnish This, and That for Use;

   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, Chapter 12,^[8]

     This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the suitable garnish for girls, and also as fundamentally fine, sentiment being the right thing for a song.

   • 1972, William Trevor, “The Grass Widows” in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, 1992, p. 228,^[9]

     There had been a semblance of chivalry in the attitude from which, at the beginning of their marriage, he had briefly regarded her; but forty-seven years had efficiently disposed of that garnish of politeness.

4. Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 6,^[10]

     So are you, sweet,

     Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

5. (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
6. (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
7. (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
   • 1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al.,^[11]

     Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.

   • 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia, London: C. Cooke, 1793, Volume I, Chapter 3, p. 13,^[12]

     This person then […] acquainted him that it was the custom of the place for every prisoner, upon his first arrival there, to give something to the former prisoners to make them drink. This, he said, was what they called garnish; and concluded with advising his new customer to draw his purse upon the present occasion.

8. (US, slang) Cash.

Translations

References

Further reading

• garnish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• garnish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• garnish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Harings, rashing, sharing