Supply
[sə'plaɪ]
解释:
(noun.) offering goods and services for sale.
(noun.) an amount of something available for use.
(verb.) give something useful or necessary to; 'We provided the room with an electrical heater'.
录入:莉娜--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
(v. t.) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
(v. t.) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
(v. t.) To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
(n.) The act of supplying; supplial.
(n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
(n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
(n.) The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
(n.) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
(n.) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
(a.) Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
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同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Provide, furnish, minister, replenish, stock, store, endue, endow, invest.[2]. Give, grant, afford, accommodate with.[3]. Serve instead of, take the place of.
n. Stock, store, reserve, provision, hoard.
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同义词及反义词:
SYN:Furnish, afford, provide, accoutre, give, minister, yield, contribute
ANT:Expend, use, consume, waste, exhaust, absorb, demand, withhold, withdraw,retain
编辑:陌莉
解释:
n. act of supplying: that which is supplied or which supplies a want: amount of food or money provided (used generally in pl.): a grant of money provided by a legislature for the expenses of government: a person who takes another's duty temporarily a substitute esp. a clergyman.—ns. Supplī′al the act of supplying the thing supplied; Sup′pliance (Shak.) that which is supplied gratification.—adj. Supplī′ant (Shak.) supplying auxiliary.—adv. Sup′pliantly.—ns. Supplī′er one who supplies; Supply′ment (Shak.) a supply.—Commissioner of Supply one of the body forming the chief county authority in Scotland for administrative and rating purposes down to 1889.
v.t. to fill up esp. a deficiency: to add what is wanted: to furnish: to fill a vacant place: to serve instead of:—pa.t. and pa.p. supplied′.
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例句:
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He waxes strong in all violence and lawlessness; and is ready for any deed of daring that will supply the wants of his rabble-rout. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- But it was possible to part with her, because Susan remained to supply her place. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- That is a detail which I shall speedily supply. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Her theme was their wants, which she sought to supply; their sufferings, which she longed to alleviate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The important elevations within the line had all been carefully fortified and supplied with a proper armament. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Air is supplied through a tube _DD_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- As he took a chair himself, he supplied the link that Mr. Lorry wanted, by saying to him with a frown, Witness at that trial. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- He was famous in field-sports, famous at a song, famous on parade; free with his money, which was bountifully supplied by his father. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But this great consumption is almost entirely supplied by France, Flanders, Holland, and Germany. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- As long as we could hold our position the enemy was limited in supplies of food, men and munitions of war to what they had on hand. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- We would then have Lee so surrounded that his supplies would be cut off entirely, making it impossible for him to support his army. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- We had enormous orders and little money, and had great difficulty to meet our payrolls and buy supplies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- If there is a deficiency, which there always is, it is provided for in the supplies of the ensuing year. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I had supplies sent around to White House for him, and kept the depot there open until he arrived. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- My purpose was to have him attack Early, or drive him out of the valley and destroy that source of supplies for Lee's army. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Memory, observation, reading, communication, are all avenues for supplying data. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Engineer and staff officers were put to the dangerous duty of supplying the place of both maps and guides. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Closely allied to the practical use of the incandescent lamp is the method of supplying and regulating the current from the dynamo. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The organization for supplying the army was very complete. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
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