decoration vs garnish

decoration

noun
  • Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation. 

  • Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. 

  • The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host 

  • The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. 

garnish

noun
  • Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative. 

  • Cash. 

  • A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners. 

  • Something added for embellishment. 

  • A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. 

  • Pewter vessels in general. 

  • Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. 

verb
  • To ornament with something placed around it. 

  • To warn by garnishment; to give notice to. 

  • To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish. 

  • To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee. 

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