Supplement
['sʌplɪm(ə)nt] or ['sʌplɪmənt]
Definition
(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'.
Edited by Alison--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Addition (to supply something wanting), appendix, postscript, continuation, CODICIL.[2]. Counterpart, correlative, complement.
v. a. Supply, add to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Addition, appendix,[See SUPERHUMAN]
Typist: Penelope
Definition
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.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- We can compare notes afterwards, and each will supplement the other. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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_. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Child-study, psychology, and a knowledge of social environment supplement the personal acquaintance gained by the teacher. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I had charge of the few wagons allotted to the 4th infantry and of the pack train to supplement them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In all essential features, except size and capacity, it is a duplicate of the one in the Bronx, of which it is a supplement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From Bridgeport, a short distance farther east, the river supplements the road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the nutritive foods should be wisely supplemented by such foods as fruits, whose real value is one of indirect rather then direct service. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Harvesters for grass and grain have been supplemented by Corn, Cotton, Potato and Flax Harvesters. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The argument, as in the Phaedo and Gorgias, is supplemented by the vision of a future life. Plato. The Republic.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Supplementing the story of Mr. Andrews is that of Lieut. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could offer an opinion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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