supply
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (verb, noun)
- (adverb)
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old French souploier, from Latin supplere (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
Verb [edit]
supply (third-person singular simple present supplies, present participle supplying, simple past and past participle supplied)
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
Translations [edit]
provide, make available for use
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furnish or equip with
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compensate for, make up for a deficiency of
act as a substitute
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Noun [edit]
supply (plural supplies)
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- supply and demand
- (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- A supply of good drinking water is essential.
- (in the plural) provisions.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
act of supplying
amount supplied
provisions
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Adverb [edit]
supply (comparative more supply, superlative most supply)
- Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
- 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court, page 68:
- His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply.
- 1938, David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists:
- […] the rain struck on her head as she bent supply to the movements of the pony, while it scrambled up the bank to the sheltering trees. For a couple of miles the path ran through woods alive with the varied voices of the rain, […]
- 1963, Johanna Moosdorf, Next door:
- She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent supply to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.
- 1988, Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), Quiet flows the Don (translated), volume 1, page 96:
- Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows.
- 'They'll see!'
- 'Let them!'
- 'I'd be ashamed—'
- 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court, page 68:
External links [edit]
- supply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- supply in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- supply at OneLook Dictionary Search