supply
Meaning of supply
verb
- make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide.
the farm supplies apples to cider makers
- take over (a vacant place or role).
when she died, no one could supply her place
- a stock or amount of something supplied or available for use.
a farm with good water supply
the demand for tickets greatly exceeds the supply
- a person, especially a schoolteacher, acting as a temporary substitute for another.
a supply teacher
late Middle English: from Old French soupleer, from Latin supplere ‘fill up’, from sub- ‘from below’ + plere ‘fill’. The early sense of the noun was ‘assistance, relief’ (chiefly a Scots use).
adverb
variant spelling of supplely (see supple).
Information about supply
- The plural form of supply is: supplies.
- Languages in which supply is used:
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Hyphenation of supply
sup-ply
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- supply is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
supply synonyms
Meaning provision:
Meaning provide:
provide, render, furnish, ply, cater
Meaning issue:
Meaning add:
Meaning freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone):
Meaning give (something, especially money) in order to help achieve or provide something:
Meaning give (money or goods) for a good cause, for example to a charity:
Meaning confer or present (an honour, right, or gift):
Meaning agree to give or allow (something requested) to:
Meaning provide with a quality, ability, or asset:
Meaning provide or supply (an opportunity or facility):
Meaning bestow (a quality):
Meaning hold out or put forward (something) to someone for acceptance:
Meaning distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people:
Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:
Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:
Meaning allocate (a job or duty):
Meaning pay out (money from a fund):
Meaning bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on:
Meaning (of a mass of small things) fall or be thrown in a shower:
Meaning entertain or amuse (someone) with talk:
Meaning attend to the needs of (someone):
Meaning present (food or drink) to someone:
Meaning grant (a title, degree, benefit, or right):
Meaning supply with the necessary items for a particular purpose:
Meaning provide with a set of clothes:
Meaning put clothes on (oneself or someone); dress:
Meaning provide (something) with a particular component or article:
Meaning each of the two upper limbs of the human body from the shoulder to the hand:
Meaning endow or provide with a quality or ability:
Meaning a supply or quantity of something accumulated or available for future use:
Meaning a quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed:
Meaning a supply of a commodity not needed for immediate use but available if required:
Meaning a supply or source of something:
Meaning a large accumulated stock of goods or materials, especially one held in reserve for use at a time of shortage or other emergency:
Meaning an untidy collection of objects placed haphazardly on top of each other:
Meaning a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another:
Meaning a large body of matter with no definite shape:
Meaning a stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded:
Meaning a collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place:
Meaning a group of accumulated items of a particular kind:
Meaning a building used for storing goods:
Meaning a place where or receptacle in which things are or may be stored:
Meaning a large stock or supply of something, especially information or knowledge:
Meaning a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time:
Meaning used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker:
Meaning the land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake:
Meaning a collection of weapons and military equipment:
Meaning a person or thing acting or serving in place of another:
Meaning a person who stands in temporarily for someone else of the same profession, especially a cleric or doctor:
Meaning a person employed on a temporary basis, typically an office worker who finds employment through an agency:
Meaning a temporary way of dealing with a problem or satisfying a need:
Translation of supply
- German: Versorgung, Nachschub, Angebot, hinzufügen, anfügen, sorgen, liefern
- Portuguese: aprovisionamento, fornecimento, adicionar, acrescentar, abastecer, fornecer, provisão
- Italian: approvvigionamento, rifornimento, offerta, aggiungere, fornire, provvedere, fornitura
- Spanish: aprovisionamiento, abastecimiento, oferta, agregar, adicionar, añadir, abastecer, proveer, suministrar, surtir, aprovisionar, proporcionar, suplir, abasto, suministro
- French: approvisionnement, offre, ajouter, fournir
Words that rhyme with supply
apply, disapply, misapply, nonapply, preapply, reapply, cripply, ripply, stipply, tipply, popply, topply, oversupply, presupply, resupply, undersupply, unsupply
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