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Supply   /səplˈaɪ/   Listen
noun
Supply  n.  (pl. supplies)  
1.
The act of supplying; supplial.
2.
That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically:
(a)
Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen."
(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."


verb
Supply  v. t.  (past & past part. supplied; pres. part. supplying)  
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." "The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky."
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.
Synonyms: To furnish; provide; administer; minister; contribute; yield; accommodate.


adjective
Supply  adj.  Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
Supply system (Zool.), the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed.





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"Supply" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gray smiled his warm appreciation of the tender. "If it is not too great a drain upon the Dietz millions, you may keep a supply of cut flowers in my room. I'm passionately fond of roses, and I should like to have my vases ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... and that, too, in the right way. Of course, neither you nor I would be satisfied with a match like that; but Sylvia is not only satisfied with Mr. Vanderley, but I have no doubt that she will be perfectly happy with him. More than that, I believe she will supply his shortcomings, and strengthen his weaknesses, and as he has a naturally good disposition, and an ample fortune, I think Sylvia is to be sincerely congratulated. When we first spoke of this matter a good while ago I thought that if the Sylvia-Vanderley affair could ever ...
— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton
... which he conceived was regrettably lacking in our conditions. He had taste, he had reading, he had a pretty knowledge of the world from travel, he had observed manners, and it seemed to him that he might not immodestly pretend to supply, as far as one man ...
— Questionable Shapes • William Dean Howells
... up with the Fifteenth Corps, on the 20th and 21st, considered the fighting as mere skirmishing, and know that my orders were to avoid a general battle, till we could be sure of Goldsboro', and of opening up a new base of supply. With the knowledge now possessed of his small force, of course I committed an error in not overwhelming Johnston's army on the 21st of March, 1865. But I was content then to let him go, and on the 22d of March rode to Cog's Bridge, where I met General Terry, with his two divisions of the Tenth ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman
... am boiled in, and put it in a bottle and lay it on one side. The Vizir will tell you to drink it, but be careful not to do so. Then take some more of the water, and drink it, and you will become a great physician, and the third supply you will give to the Sultan. And when the Vizir comes to you and asks, "Did you drink what I gave you?" you must answer, "I did, and this is for you," and he will drink it and die! and ...
— The Violet Fairy Book • Various


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