2020-10-02 ศัพท์ ที่มักสับสน ชุด G – garnish - garnishee

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2020-10-02

ศัพท์ ที่มักสับสน ชุด G – garnish - garnishee

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง “Garnish” = ‘GAHR-nish’

ออกเสียง “Garnishee” = ‘gahr-ni-SHEE’

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choose the Right Synonym for garnish

Verb

ADORN, DECORATE, ORNAMENT, EMBELLISH, BEAUTIFY, DECK, GARNISH

mean to enhance the appearance of something by adding something unessential.

ADORN implies an enhancing bysomething beautiful in itself. a diamond necklace adorned her neck

DECORATE suggests relieving plainness or monotony by adding beauty of color or design. decorate a birthday cake

ORNAMENT and EMBELLISH imply the adding of something extraneous,

ORNAMENT stressing the heightening or setting off of the original a white house ornamented with green shutters,

EMBELLISH often stressing the adding of superfluous or adventitious ornament. embellish a page with floral borders

BEAUTIFY adds to EMBELLISH a suggestion of counterbalancingplainness or ugliness. will beautify the grounds with flower beds

DECK implies the addition ofsomething that contributes to gaiety, splendor, or showiness. a house all decked out for Christmas

GARNISH suggests decorating with a small final touch and is used especially in referring to the serving of food. an entrée garnished with parsley

Did You Know?

Verb

Although we now mostly garnish food, the general application of the "decorate" meaning is older.

The link between embellishing an object or space and adding a little parsley to a plate isn't too hard to see, but how does the sense relating to debtors' wages fit in? The answer lies in the word's Anglo-French root, garnir, which means "to warn or to equip."

Before wages were garnished, the debtor would be served with a legal summons or warning. The legal sense of "garnish" now focuses on the taking of the wages, but it is rooted in the action of furnishing the warning.

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Garnish - garnishee

Garnish means (1) to decorate, to adorn, to supply with something (A good chef will garnish a casserole like this with parsley):

and (2) to attach money or property (If you don’t pay the debt, we shall have to garnishyour salary).

The verb garnish is more usually rendered as garnishee, which is also a noun meaning a person whose money or property has been attached: “The judge ordered the creditor to garnishee half of my pay.”