Supply

[sə'plaɪ]

解釋/意思:

(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'.

錄入:莉娜--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

校對:马奇

同義詞及近義詞：

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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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Furnish, afford, provide, accoutre, give, minister, yield, contribute

ANT:Expend, use, consume, waste, exhaust, absorb, demand, withhold, withdraw,retain

編輯:陌莉

解釋/意思:

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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