Word Meanings - SUPPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 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

Additional info about word: SUPPLY

LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUPPLY)

• Accommodate
• Convenience
• oblige
• adapt
• supply
• reconcile
• suit
• fit
• adjust
• furnish
• serve
• harmonize
• Afford
• Produce
• give
• yield
• grant
• confer
• bestow
• impart
• administer
• extend
• Augmentation
• Increase
• enlargement
• amplification
• enrichment
• enhancement
• addition
• acquisition
• improvement
• Complement
• Completion
• fulfilment
• totality
• counterpart
• correlative
• Contingent
• Contribution
• subsidy
• succor
• reinforcement
• auxiliaries
• donation
• subscription

Related words: (words related to SUPPLY)

• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• SUCCOR
  tiono run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from He is able to succor them that are tempted. Heb. ii. 18. Syn. -- To aid; assist; relieve; deliver; help; comfort. (more
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• CONTRIBUTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• COUNTERPART
  One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• CONDONATION
  Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
• INSERVE
  To be of use to an end; to serve.