supply
Part of speech: verb
noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin suppleo (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.
Base: supple
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: supplies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supplying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supplied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supplied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: supplies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more supply
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most supply
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: supplely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to supply money for the war
gloss: To furnish or equip with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
gloss: To fill up, or keep full.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
gloss: To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To serve instead of; to take the place of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Burning ships the banished sun supply.
The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply
 His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
gloss: To act as a substitute.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to supply a pulpit
gloss: The act of supplying.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An amount of something supplied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A supply of good drinking water is essential.
She said, "China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater".
gloss: The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.
gloss: Provisions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
gloss: An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: to vote supplies
gloss: Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
pos: adv
examples: His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply.
[…] 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, […]
She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent supply to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.
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—'
Synonyms: provision
Related words: suppletion
Derived words: oversupply
resupply
undersupply
possession with intent to supply
presupply
suppliable
supplial
supplier
supplyment
supply up
surface-supplied diving
unsupplied
agrosupply
blood supply
bulk supply
confidence and supply
furnish and supply
high on one's own supply
in short supply
line of supply
loss of supply
money supply
narcissistic supply
perfectly elastic supply
perfectly inelastic supply
power supply
price elasticity of supply
self-supply
supply and demand
supply chain
supply chain visibility
supply curve
supply depot
supply line
supply network
supply priest
supply shock
supply side
supply-side
supply-side economics
supply-sider
supply teacher
supply vessel
uninterruptible power supply
water supply
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