provide
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.
Inflected forms:
form: provides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: providing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: provide
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: provide
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: provide
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: providest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: providedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: provides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: provideth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: provide
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: provide
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: provide
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: providing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: provided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To make a living; earn money for necessities.
pos: verb
examples: It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
gloss: To act to prepare for something.
pos: verb
examples: provide against disaster.
gloss: To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
pos: verb
examples: The contract provides that the work be well done.
I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
gloss: To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
pos: verb
examples: Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
This resort provides an evening meal for its guests.
Humans provided the animals with food and protection in exchange for which the animals provided the humans their milk, eggs, and—yes—their flesh.
LSC provides grants to nonprofits nationwide that in turn provide civil legal aid to those who otherwise can't afford it. The beneficiaries of LSC funding include homeless veterans, low-income workers and victims of domestic abuse.
Climate Reanalyzer uses data from the NCEP climate forecast system to provide a time series of daily mean two-metre air temperature, based on readings from surface, air balloon and satellite observations.
gloss: To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.
pos: verb
examples: Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.
gloss: To make possible or attainable.
pos: verb
examples: He provides us with an alternative option.
Plants provide (us) with the oxygen we breathe.
Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide.
gloss: To foresee, to consider in advance.
pos: verb
tags: Latinism
obsolete
examples: We have not been covetous, honourable fathers, to change, neither is it now any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing, but those needful jealousies of state, that warn wiser princes hourly to provide their safety, and do teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their own employed favours have made fit for their fears.
As for those that will (by faults which charity hath raked up, or common honesty concealed) make themselves a name with the multitude, or, to draw their rude and beastly claps, care not whose living faces they intrench with their petulant styles, may they do it without a rival, for me! I choose rather to live graved in obscurity, than share with them in so preposterous a fame. Nor can I blame the wishes of those severe and wise patriots, who providing the hurts these licentious spirits may do in a state, desire rather to see fools and devils, and those antique relics of barbarism retrieved, with all other ridiculous and exploded follies, than behold the wounds of private men, of princes and nations
gloss: To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
pos: verb
examples: provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church
Related words: provision
Derived words: as provided for
disprovide
foreprovide
improvided
misprovide
nonprovided
preprovide
providable
providee
provider
reprovide
underprovide
underprovided
unprovide
unprovided
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