SUPPLY
\səplˈa͡ɪ], \səplˈaɪ], \s_ə_p_l_ˈaɪ]\
Definitions of SUPPLY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
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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.
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To serve instead of; to take the place of.
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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.
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To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
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The act of supplying; supplial.
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That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
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Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
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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.
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An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
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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.
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Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
By Oddity Software
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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
By Noah Webster.
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To furnish with what is required; as, to supply a people with food; to furnish; as, to supply food for a people; to fill temporarily; as, to supply a pulpit; make up for; as, to supply a loss.
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The act of providing or furnishing; that which is furnished; amount of any article on hand to meet a demand.
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Supplying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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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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Act of supplying: that which is supplied or which supplies a wan amount of food or money provided (used generally in pl.).
By Daniel Lyons
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Act of supplying; that which is supplied, or supplies a want; food, money, &c., supplied.
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To fill up; furnish; provide.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To furnish with what is needed.
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To give; afford.
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To occupy temporarily.
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The available aggregate of things needed or demanded.
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An amount sufficient for a given use.
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A temporary incumbent.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Moneys granted by the British Parliament for public expenditure.
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The act of supplying; sufficiency of things for use or want; the necessary stores and provisions.
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To fill up as any deficiency happens; to furnish what is wanted; to serve instead of; to bring or furnish; to fill vacant room or a vacancy.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To fill; to give or afford what is wanted; to serve instead of; to provide; to bring or furnish; to fill vacant room.
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Sufficiency of things for use or want; the necessary stores and provisions; relief of want.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Sufficiency of things for use or want ; especially, the food, &c., which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men ; store-chiefly in the plural ;-also, the sums of money granted by Parliament to meet the public charges and expenditure for the current year.
