Word
Supply
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
sup-ply
Definition
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply
money for the war.
- n. - The act of supplying; supplial.
- n. - That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use
or want.
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