English > provide: 7 senses > verb 1, possession| Meaning | 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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| Example | "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
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| Synonyms | supply, 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 | provider | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity |
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| provision | the activity of supplying or providing something |
English > provide: 7 senses > verb 2, consumption| Meaning | 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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| Model | They provide the food to the people; They provide the people the food |
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| Example | "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
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| Synonyms | supply, 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 | provider | someone who provides the means for subsistence |
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| provision | the activity of supplying or providing something |
