Garnish vs. Seize — What's the Difference?

Decorate or embellish (something, especially food)

Take hold of suddenly and forcibly

Serve notice on (a third party) for the purpose of legally seizing money belonging to a debtor or defendant.

Take (an opportunity) eagerly and decisively

A small amount of food used to decorate other food

(of a feeling or pain) affect (someone) suddenly or acutely

To enhance in appearance by adding decorative touches; embellish

Strongly appeal to or attract (the imagination or attention)

To decorate (prepared food or drink) with small colorful or savory items

(of a machine with moving parts) become jammed

To seize (property such as wages) by garnishment.

Be in legal possession of

To serve (someone) with papers announcing the garnishment of that person's property in order to satisfy a debt.

Fasten or attach (someone or something) to something by binding with turns of rope

An ornamentation or embellishment, especially one added to a prepared food or drink for decoration or added flavor.

To grasp suddenly and forcibly; take or grab

To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.

To take by force; capture or conquer

(cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.

To take quick and forcible possession of; confiscate

(archaic) To furnish; to supply.

To focus the attention or intellect on

To fit with fetters; to fetter.

To make use of (an opportunity, for example).

(legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.

To have a sudden overwhelming effect on

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

To overwhelm physically

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

Also seise (sēz) Law To cause (someone) to be in possession of something.

Pewter vessels in general.

(Nautical) To bind (a rope) to another, or to a spar, with turns of small line.

Something added for embellishment.

To lay sudden or forcible hold of something.

Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.

To cohere or fuse with another part as a result of high pressure or temperature and restrict or prevent further motion or flow.

(cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.

To come to a halt

Fetters.

To exhibit signs of seizure activity, often with convulsions.

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

(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.

Cash.

(transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).

To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

(transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).

To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

(transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.

To furnish; to supply.

To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.

To fit with fetters.

To fasten, fix.

Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

(intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).

Fetters.

(intransitive) To have a seizure.

A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

(intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.

Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration

To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment

(law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).

Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support;

Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.

Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

To take possession of by force.

To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.

To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.

To fasten; to fix.

To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.

To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

Take hold of; grab;

Take or capture by force;

Take possession of by force, as after an invasion;

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority;

Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession;

Hook by a pull on the line;

Affect;

Capture the attention or imagination of;