English > supply: 7 senses > noun 3, actMeaning | The activity of supplying or providing something. |
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Synonyms | provision, supplying |
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Narrower | feeding, alimentation | The act of supplying food and nourishment |
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fueling, refueling | The activity of supplying or taking on fuel |
healthcare delivery, health care delivery, care delivery | The provision of health care |
irrigation | Supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc |
issue, issuing, issuance | The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) |
logistics | Handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed |
purveyance | The act of supplying something |
stocking | The activity of supplying a stock of something |
subvention | The act or process of providing aid or help of any sort |
Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
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Spanish | abastecimiento, abasto, aprovisionamiento, oferta, provisión |
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Catalan | abastament, abast, oferta, provisió, subministrament |
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Verbs | supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance |
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supply | give something useful or necessary to |
supply | circulate or distribute or equip with |
English > supply: 7 senses > verb 1, possessionMeaning | Give something useful or necessary to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody with something; Somebody ----s something with something |
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Synonyms | provide, render, furnish |
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Entailed by | supplement | add as a supplement to what seems insufficient |
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Narrower | air-cool, air-condition | equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature |
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alphabetize | Provide with an alphabet |
arm | Supply with arms |
bed | Furnish with a bed |
berth | Provide with a berth / berth |
bewhisker, whisker | Furnish with whiskers |
border, edge | Provide with a border or edge |
bottom | Provide with a bottom or a seat / seat |
brattice | Supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines |
bush | Provide with a bushing |
calk | Provide with calks |
canal, canalize, canalise | Provide (a city) with a canal |
capitalize, capitalise | Supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders |
caption | Provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing |
causeway | Provide with a causeway |
charge | energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge |
cleat | Provide with cleats |
coal | Supply with coal |
computerize, computerise | Provide with computers |
constitutionalize | Provide with a constitution, as of a country |
copper-bottom | Provide with a copper bottom |
corbel | Furnish with a corbel |
cornice | Furnish with a cornice |
costume | Furnish with costumes |
crenel, crenelate, crenellate | Supply with battlements |
curtain | Provide with drapery |
dado | Provide with a dado |
date | Provide with a dateline |
equip, fit, fit out, outfit | Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose |
extend, offer | make available |
feed | feed into |
flood, oversupply, glut | Supply with an excess of |
fret | Provide (a musical instrument) with frets |
fuel | Provide with a combustible substance that provides energy |
fuel, fire | Provide with fuel |
fund | Provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest |
furnish | Provide or equip with furniture |
gate | Supply with a gate |
glass, glaze | Furnish with glass |
grate | Furnish with a grate |
hat | Furnish with a hat |
headline | Provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline |
headquarter | Provide with headquarters |
heat | Provide with heat / heat / heat |
hobnail | Supply with hobnails |
hydrate | Supply water or liquid / liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance |
index | Provide with an index |
innervate | Supply nerves to (some organ or body part) |
interleave | Provide (books) with blank leaves |
joint, articulate | Provide with a joint |
kern | Furnish with a kern |
key | Provide with a key |
leverage | Provide with leverage |
machicolate | Supply with projecting galleries |
match | Provide funds complementary to |
offer | make available or accessible, provide or furnish |
partner | Provide with a partner |
patch | Provide with a patch |
pour | Supply in large amounts or quantities |
provision, purvey | Supply with provisions / provisions |
pump | Supply in great quantities |
rafter | Provide (a ceiling) with rafters |
rail | Provide with rails |
railroad | Supply with railroad lines |
ramp | Furnish with a ramp |
reflectorize, reflectorise | Provide with reflectors, such as chemicals |
retrofit | Provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture |
rim | Furnish with a rim |
sanitate | Provide with sanitary facilities or appliances |
seat | Provide with seats / seats / seats |
seat | Put a seat on a chair |
shelter | Provide shelter / shelter for |
signalize, signalise | Provide with traffic signals |
slat | equip or bar with slats |
step | Furnish with steps |
stint, skimp, scant | Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities |
stock, buy in, stock up | Amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use |
stock | Provide or furnish with a stock of something |
stock | Supply with livestock |
stock | Supply with fish |
subtitle | Supply (a movie) with subtitles |
surfeit, cloy | Supply or feed to surfeit |
tap | Furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid / liquid from it |
terrace, terrasse | Provide (a house) with a terrace |
theme | Provide with a particular theme or motive |
ticket | Provide with a ticket for passage or admission |
toggle | Provide with a toggle or toggles |
tool | Furnish with tools |
top, top out | Provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure) |
transistorize, transistorise | equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors |
tube | Provide with a tube or insert / insert a tube into |
uniform | Provide with uniforms |
upholster | Provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers |
victual | Supply with food |
water | Provide with water |
wharf | Provide with a wharf |
wive | Provide with a wife |
yield, give, afford | Be the cause or source of |
Broader | give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody |
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Spanish | abastecer, aportar, aprovisionar, dotar, entregar, facilitar, proporcionar, proveer, suministrar, suplir, surtir |
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Catalan | abastir, aportar, dotar, facilitar, prestar, proporcionar, proveir, subministrar |
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Nouns | supplier | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity |
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supply, supplying | the activity of supplying or providing something |
supply | an amount of something available for use |
English > supply: 7 senses > verb 3, consumptionMeaning | Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something |
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Synonyms | provide, ply, cater |
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Narrower | accommodate | Provide with something desired or needed |
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board | Provide food and lodging (for) |
cater | Supply food ready to eat |
drench | Force to drink |
feed, give | Give food to |
feed | Serve as food for |
feed | Provide as food |
fit, conform to, meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil | satisfy a condition or restriction |
fix up | Find (something or someone) for |
gratify, pander, indulge | Yield (to) |
gutter | Provide with gutters |
horse | Provide with a horse or horses |
nourish, nurture, sustain | Provide with nourishment |
pander, pimp, procure | Arrange for sexual partners for others |
power | Supply the force or power for the functioning of |
regale, treat | Provide with choice or abundant food or drink |
serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish | Provide (usually but not necessarily food) |
serve, help | Help to some food |
shower | Provide abundantly with |
staff | Provide with staff |
underlay | Provide with a base, support, lining, or backing |
Broader | give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody |
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Spanish | abastecer, aportar, aprovisionar, cateraje, dotar, facilitar, ministrar, proporcionar, proveer, suministrar, surtir |
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Catalan | aportar, dotar, facilitar, proporcionar, subministrar |
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Nouns | supply | the activity of supplying or providing something |
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supply | an amount of something available for use |