Supplement
['sʌplɪm(ə)nt] or ['sʌplɪmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency).
(verb.) add as a supplement to what seems insufficient; 'supplement your diet'.
(verb.) serve as a supplement to; 'Vitamins supplemented his meager diet'.
艾莉森編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
(v. t.) That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.
(v. t.) The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
(v. t.) To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
欧内斯特整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Addition (to supply something wanting), appendix, postscript, continuation, CODICIL.[2]. Counterpart, correlative, complement.
v. a. Supply, add to.
约翰校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Addition, appendix,[See SUPERHUMAN]
錄入:佩内洛普
解釋/意思:
n. that which supplies or fills up: any addition by which defects are supplied: the quantity by which an angle or an arc falls short of 180?or a semicircle.—v.t. Supplement′ to supply or fill up: to add to.—adjs. Supplemen′tal Supplement′ary added to supply what is wanting: additional.—adv. Supplement′arily.—ns. Supplementā′tion; Supplement′er.—v.t. Supplēte′ to supplement.—adjs. Supp′lētive Supp′lētory supplemental.—n. a supplement.
整理:薇尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- We can compare notes afterwards, and each will supplement the other. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The date of the reading is not at hand, but it is supposed to be slightly prior to May 13, 1882, on which date it was printed in the _Scientific American Supplement_. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Child-study, psychology, and a knowledge of social environment supplement the personal acquaintance gained by the teacher. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I had charge of the few wagons allotted to the 4th infantry and of the pack train to supplement them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In all essential features, except size and capacity, it is a duplicate of the one in the Bronx, of which it is a supplement. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- For many reasons wireless telephony can never take the place of wire systems, but it may be expected to supplement them in a useful manner. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- From Bridgeport, a short distance farther east, the river supplements the road. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Among the fibers employed in rope making that of the hemp plant long held the supremacy, though in recent years it has been largely supplemented by other and stronger fibers. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But the nutritive foods should be wisely supplemented by such foods as fruits, whose real value is one of indirect rather then direct service. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Harvesters for grass and grain have been supplemented by Corn, Cotton, Potato and Flax Harvesters. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Flax, wool, silk, and cotton have been supplemented with the fibres of metal, of glass, of cocoanut, pine needles, ramie, wood-pulp, and of many other plants, leaves and grasses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The argument, as in the Phaedo and Gorgias, is supplemented by the vision of a future life. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Supplementing the story of Mr. Andrews is that of Lieut. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could offer an opinion. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
埃尔伯特編輯