different between arrangement vs supply

English

Etymology

From French arrangement.

Morphologically arrange +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?nd??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: ar?range?ment

Noun

arrangement (countable and uncountable, plural arrangements)

1. The act of arranging.
2. The manner of being arranged.
3. A collection of things that have been arranged.
4. A particular way in which items are organized.
5. (in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.
6. An agreement.
7. (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.

Synonyms

• (particular way in which items are organized): configuration, constitution; see also Thesaurus:composition

Derived terms

• wheel arrangement

Related terms

• arrange

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French arrangement, derived from the verb arranger, hence Danish arrangere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??????m??]

Noun

arrangement n (singular definite arrangementet, plural indefinite arrangementer)

1. arrangement
2. event, party

Declension

Further reading

• “arrangement” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “arrangement” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arrangement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.r?n.???m?nt/
• Hyphenation: ar?ran?ge?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

arrangement n (plural arrangementen, diminutive arrangementje n)

1. (music) A musical arrangement.
2. A package deal, especially in relation to recreative services.

Related terms

• arrangeren

French

Etymology

arranger +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.????.m??/

Noun

arrangement m (plural arrangements)

1. arrangement

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French arrangement

Noun

arrangement n (definite singular arrangementet, indefinite plural arrangement or arrangementer, definite plural arrangementa or arrangementene)

1. arrangement, event

Related terms

• arrangere

References

• “arrangement” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “arrangement” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French arrangement

Noun

arrangement n (definite singular arrangementet, indefinite plural arrangement, definite plural arrangementa)

1. arrangement, event

Related terms

• arrangere

References

• “arrangement” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin supplere (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?pl??, IPA^(key): /s??pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: sup?ply

Verb

supply (third-person singular simple present supplies, present participle supplying, simple past and past participle supplied)

2. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

   to supply money for the war

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3. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.

   to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition

4. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.

   Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

5. (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.

6. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
   • 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter

     Burning ships the banished sun supply.

   • The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.

7. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
8. (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

Derived terms

• supplier

Related terms

• suppletion

Translations

Noun

supply (countable and uncountable, plural supplies)

1. (uncountable) The act of supplying.

   supply and demand

2. (countable) An amount of something supplied.

   A supply of good drinking water is essential.

   She said, “China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater.

3. (in the plural) provisions.
4. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.

   to vote supplies

5. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

Derived terms

• loss of supply
• supply teacher
• supply vessel

Translations

Etymology 2

supple +? -ly

Alternative forms

• supplely

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?p?l?, IPA^(key): /?s?pli/
• Hyphenation: sup?ply

Adverb

supply (comparative more supply, superlative most supply)

1. 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, ??????? ?????????????? ???????? (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—'

Further reading

• supply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• supply in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• supply at OneLook Dictionary Search