Supply
[sə'plaɪ]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Madge
Synonyms and Synonymous
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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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Furnish, afford, provide, accoutre, give, minister, yield, contribute
ANT:Expend, use, consume, waste, exhaust, absorb, demand, withhold, withdraw,retain
Checker: Mollie
Definition
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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Examples
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Plato. The Republic.
- 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. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But it was possible to part with her, because Susan remained to supply her place. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- That is a detail which I shall speedily supply. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Her theme was their wants, which she sought to supply; their sufferings, which she longed to alleviate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The important elevations within the line had all been carefully fortified and supplied with a proper armament. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Air is supplied through a tube _DD_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He was famous in field-sports, famous at a song, famous on parade; free with his money, which was bountifully supplied by his father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But this great consumption is almost entirely supplied by France, Flanders, Holland, and Germany. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We would then have Lee so surrounded that his supplies would be cut off entirely, making it impossible for him to support his army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We had enormous orders and little money, and had great difficulty to meet our payrolls and buy supplies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If there is a deficiency, which there always is, it is provided for in the supplies of the ensuing year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I had supplies sent around to White House for him, and kept the depot there open until he arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Memory, observation, reading, communication, are all avenues for supplying data. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Engineer and staff officers were put to the dangerous duty of supplying the place of both maps and guides. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The organization for supplying the army was very complete. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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