Que a categoria em ENGLISH - ALTERNATIVE FORMS
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English - Alternative Forms
* supplely
Que a categoria em ENGLISH - PRONUNCIATION
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English - Pronunciation
* (verb, noun)
* enPR: səplīʹ, IPA(key): /səˈplaɪ/
* Rhymes: -aɪ
* (adverb)
* enPR: sŭpʹlē, IPA(key): /ˈsʌpli/
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(verb, noun)
- enPR: səplīʹ, IPA(key): /səˈplaɪ/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
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(adverb)
- enPR: sŭpʹlē, IPA(key): /ˈsʌpli/
Que a categoria em ENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 1
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English - Etymology 1
From Old French _souploier_, from Latin _supplere_ (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
VERB
SUPPLY (_third-person singular simple present_ SUPPLIES, _present participle_ SUPPLYING, _simple past and past participle_ SUPPLIED)
* (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
_to SUPPLY money for the war_
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* (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
_to SUPPLY a furnace with fuel; to SUPPLY soldiers with ammunition_
* (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
_Rivers are SUPPLIED by smaller streams._
* (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
* 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, _Virginibus Puerisque_:
It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had SUPPLIED the defect.
* (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
* Waller
Burning ships the banished sun SUPPLY.
* Dryden
The sun was set, and Vesper, to SUPPLY / His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
* (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
* (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
_to SUPPLY a pulpit_
TRANSLATIONS
DERIVED TERMS
* supplier
RELATED TERMS
* suppletion
NOUN
SUPPLY (_plural_ SUPPLIES)
* (uncountable) The act of supplying.
_SUPPLY and demand_
* (countable) An amount of something supplied.
_A SUPPLY of good drinking water is essential._
* (in the plural) provisions.
* (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
_to vote SUPPLIES_
* Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
DERIVED TERMS
* supply teacher
TRANSLATIONS
From Old French souploier, from Latin supplere (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
supply (third-person
singular simple present supplies, present participle supplying, simple past and past participle supplied)
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
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to supply money for the war
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(transitive) To furnish or equip with.
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to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
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(transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
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Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
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(transitive) To compensate for, or make up a
deficiency of.
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(transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
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(intransitive) To act as a substitute.
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(transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
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to supply a pulpit
supply (plural supplies)
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(uncountable) The act of supplying.
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supply and demand
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(countable) An amount of something supplied.
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A supply of good drinking water is essential.
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(in the plural) provisions.
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(chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
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to vote supplies
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Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
Que a categoria em ENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 2
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English - Etymology 2
_supple_ + _-ly_
ADVERB
SUPPLY (_comparative_ MORE SUPPLY, _superlative_ MOST SUPPLY)
* Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
* 1906, Ford Madox Ford, _The fifth queen: and how she came to court_, page 68:
His voice was playful and full; his back was bent SUPPLY.
* 1938, David Leslie Murray, _Commander of the mists_:
[…] the rain struck on her head as she bent SUPPLY to the movements of the pony, while it scrambled up the bank to the sheltering trees. For a couple of miles the path ran through woods alive with the varied voices of the rain, […]
* 1963, Johanna Moosdorf, _Next door_:
She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent SUPPLY to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.
* 1988, Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), _Quiet flows the Don_ (translated), volume 1, page 96:
Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent SUPPLY backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows.
'They'll see!'
'Let them!'
'I'd be ashamed—'
supple + -ly
supply (comparative more supply, superlative most supply)
- Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
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1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court, page 68:
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His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply.
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1938, David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists:
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[…] the rain struck on her head as she bent supply to the movements of the pony, while it scrambled up the bank to the sheltering trees. For a couple of miles the path ran through woods alive with the varied voices of the rain, […]
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1963, Johanna Moosdorf, Next door:
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She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent supply to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.
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1988, Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), Quiet flows the Don (translated), volume 1, page 96:
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Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards
and shot a frightened glance at the windows.
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'They'll see!'
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'Let them!'
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'I'd be ashamed—'
Que a categoria em ENGLISH - EXTERNAL LINKS
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* supply in _Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary_, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
* supply in _The Century Dictionary_, The Century Co., New York, 1911
* supply at _OneLook Dictionary Search_