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supply

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)

  1. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
    to supply money for the war
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  2. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
    to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
  3. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
    Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
  4. (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.
  5. (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.
  6. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  7. (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

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accumulation

English

Etymology

  • First attested in the late 15th century.
  • accumulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?.?kju?m.j?.?le?.??n/
  • Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tion
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)

  1. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
  2. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
  3. A mass of something piled up or collected.
  4. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
  5. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
  6. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
  7. (Britain, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.

Synonyms

  • (accounting): retained earnings

Antonyms

  • decumulation

Related terms

  • accumulate
  • accumulator

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ky.my.la.sj??/

Noun

accumulation f (plural accumulations)

  1. accumulation (action of accumulating)
  2. accumulation (result of accumulating)

Related terms

  • accumuler

Further reading

  • “accumulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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