Supply

/səˈplaɪ/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
2. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
3. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
4. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
5. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
6. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
7. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
8. (uncountable) The act of supplying.

Example Sentences

to supply money for the war

to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition

Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect.

Burning ships the banished sun supply.

The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.

to supply a pulpit

A supply of good drinking water is essential.

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Word Forms

• supplies
• supplying
• supplied
• more supply
• most supply
• supplely

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