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Meaning of SUPPLY

Pronunciation:  su'plI

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the activity of supplying or providing something
  2. [n]  offering goods and services for sale
  3. [n]  an amount of something available for use
  4. [v]  state or say further; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"
  5. [v]  provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
  6. [v]  provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"; "render assistence"
  7. [v]  circulate or distribute; "issue a new uniform to the children"
 
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 Synonyms: add, append, cater, furnish, issue, ply, provide, provide, provision, render, supplying
 
 Antonyms: demand, recall
 
 See Also: accommodate, activity, afford, air-condition, alimentation, alphabetize, arm, articulate, bed, berth, bewhisker, board, border, bottom, brattice, bush, buy in, calk, canal, canalise, canalize, capitalise, capitalize, caption, care delivery, causeway, charge, cleat, cloy, coal, computerise, computerize, constitutionalize, copperbottom, corbel, cornice, costume, crenel, crenelate, crenellate, curtain, date, dish, dish out, dish up, distribute, drench, economic process, edge, equip, extend, feed, feed, feeding, fill, fire, fit, fit out, fix up, flood, free, fuel, fueling, fulfil, fulfill, fund, gate, give, give, glass, glaze, glut, grate, gratify, gutter, headline, health care delivery, heat, help, hobnail, horse, hydrate, indefinite quantity, index, indulge, innervate, insert, interleave, irrigation, issuance, issue, issuing, joint, key, leverage, logistics, machicolate, match, meet, nourish, nurture, offer, outfit, oversupply, pander, partner, patch, pimp, pour, power, procure, provision, pump, purvey, purveyance, rafter, rail, railroad, ramp, reflectorise, reflectorize, refueling, regale, release, reservoir, retrofit, sanitate, satisfy, say, scant, seat, serve, serve up, shelter, shower, signalise, signalize, skimp, slat, slip in, sneak in, staff, state, stick in, stint, stock, stocking, subtitle, subvention, surfeit, sustain, tap, tell, terrace, terrasse, toggle, tool, top, toss in, transistorise, transistorize, treat, unblock, underlay, unfreeze, uniform, upholster, victual, water, wharf, whisker, wive, yield

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Sup*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Supplied}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Supplying}.] [For older supploy, F. suppl['e]er, OF. also
supployer, (assumed) LL. suppletare, from L. supplere,
suppletum; sub under + plere to fill, akin to plenus full.
See {Plenty}.]
1. 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.
2. To serve instead of; to take the place of.
         Burning ships the banished sun supply. --Waller.
         The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent
         beams, had lighted up the sky.        --Dryden.
3. 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.
4. To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply
   money for the war. --Prior.
Syn: To furnish; provide; administer; minister; contribute;
     yield; accommodate.

  2. \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. {Supplies}.
1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker.
2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use
   or want. Specifically:
   (a) Auxiliary troops or re["e]nforcements. ``My promised
       supply of horsemen.'' --Shak.
   (b) 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.
   (c) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or
       Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures;
       generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
   (d) 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.
{Stated supply} (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a
   pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor.
   [U.S.]
{Supply and demand}. (Polit. Econ.) ``Demand means the
   quantity of a given article which would be taken at a
   given price. Supply means the quantity of that article
   which could be had at that price.'' --F. A. Walker.

  3. \Sup*ply"\, a.
Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of
anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
{Supply system} (Zo["o]l.), the system of tubes and canals in
   sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See
   Illust. of {Spongi[ae]}.
 
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