Equip
[ɪ'kwɪp]
Definition
(verb.) provide with abilities or understanding; 'She was never equipped to be a dancer'.
(verb.) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; 'The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities'.
Editor: Madge--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops.
(v. t.) To dress up; to array; accouter.
Checker: Neil
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Furnish, provide, arm, fit out, supply with outfits or apparatus.[2]. Dress, accoutre, array, dress out.
Inputed by Jesse
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Accoutre, garnish, invest, prepare, furnish, arrange
ANT:Divest, dismantle, denude, despoil, derange
Typist: Trevor
Definition
v.t. to fit out: to furnish with everything needed for any service or work:—pr.p. equip′ping; pa.p. equipped′.—n. E′quipāge that with which one is equipped: furniture required for any service as that of a soldier &c.: a carriage and attendants retinue.—v.t. (obs.) to furnish with an equipage.—n. Equip′ment the act of equipping: the state of being equipped: things used in equipping or furnishing: outfit.
Checker: Thomas
Examples
- The street conductors were of the overhead pole-line construction, and were installed by the construction company that had been organized by Edison to build and equip central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Electric lighting was not invented to equip skyscrapers and the huge apartment buildings of today. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now the strength and cheapness of harnesses enable the poor man to equip his horse with a working suit impossible to have been produced a hundred years ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He also reported his troops fagged, and that it was necessary to equip up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- All that he has of certainty will be expended when he is fully equipped. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A large shop was rented in Newark, equipped with $25,000 worth of machinery, and Edison was given full charge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How otherwise could the Champion Harvesting Machine Company of Springfield, Ohio, turn out an equipped machine every four minutes each working day of ten hours? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A shop fully equipped with electric machinery is the best possible kind of shop for employee as well as for the owner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our trains arrived a few days later, after which we were all perfectly equipped. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the matter of equipping a fleet to enter Omean the details were left to Kantos Kan and Xodar. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- When the seringuero starts out he equips himself with a tomahawk-like axe having a handle about thirty inches long. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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