different between supply vs grace

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin gr?tia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from gr?tus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?erH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful.

The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ?ste (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ?adm?du (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ?r (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??e?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

grace (countable and uncountable, plural graces)

1. (countable, uncountable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

   • 1783, Hugh Blair, "Critical Examniation of the Style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of The Spectator" in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

     I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.

2. (countable) A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.

3. (countable, card games) In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
4. (countable, music) A grace note.
5. (uncountable) Elegant movement; balance or poise.

6. (uncountable, finance) An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
   • 1990, Claude de Bèze, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, University Press, page 153:

     With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.

8. (uncountable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.

9. An act or decree of the governing body of an English university.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

grace (third-person singular simple present graces, present participle gracing, simple past and past participle graced)

1. (transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
2. (transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.

   • He might, at his pleasure, grace […] or disgrace whom he would in court.

3. (transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
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4. (transitive, music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

Synonyms

• mense

Translations

Further reading

• grace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cager

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French grace, from Latin gr?tia.

Alternative forms

• graz, crace, gras, grase

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /??ra?ts?/
• IPA^(key): /??ra?s(?)/

Noun

grace (plural graces or grace)

1. Various (Christian) theological meanings, usually as an attribute of God:
   1. The grace of God; divine aid or beneficence.
   2. A gift or sign of God; a demonstration of divine power.
   3. guidance, direction (especially divine)
2. luck, destiny (especially positive or beneficial)
3. niceness, esteem, positive demeanour
4. beneficence, goodwill, good intentions
5. gracefulness, elegance; aptness, competence.
6. A present; a helpful or kind act.
7. relief, relenting, forgiveness
8. A prayer, especially one preceding a meal.
9. (rare) repute, credit
10. (rare) misfortune, misadventure, doom
11. (rare, Late Middle English) unfairness, partisanship

Related terms

• graceful
• graceles
• gracen
• gracious

Descendants

• English: grace
• Scots: grace
• Yola: greash

References

• “gr?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Etymology 2

From Old English græs.

Noun

grace

1. Alternative form of gras

Old French

Alternative forms

• gratia (10th century)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gr?tia.

Noun

grace f (oblique plural graces, nominative singular grace, nominative plural graces)

1. grace; favor
2. grace; gracefulness; elegance

Descendants

• French: grâce
• ? Middle English: grace, graz, crace, gras, grase
  • English: grace
  • Scots: grace
  • Yola: greash

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grace, supplement)
• grace on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub