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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)
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- to supply money for the war
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- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
- (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.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- (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.
- 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (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)
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- supply and demand
- (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.
- (in the plural) provisions.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- to vote supplies
- 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)
- 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—'
- 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court, page 68:
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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license
English
Alternative forms
- (British, Canadian, Australian, Irish, South African and New Zealand English) licence (noun)
Etymology
From Old French licence, from Latin licentia (“license”), from licens, present participle of licere (“to be allowed, be allowable”); compare linquere, Ancient Greek ????? (leíp?, “leave”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?s?ns/
- Hyphenation: li?cense
Noun
license (countable and uncountable, plural licenses)
- A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
- The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
- Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
- Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
- Short for driver's license.
Usage notes
- In British English, Canadian English, Australian English, Irish English, South African English and New Zealand English the noun is spelt licence and the verb is license.
- The spelling licence is not used for either part of speech in the United States.
Derived terms
Related terms
- licensure
- licentious
Translations
Verb
license (third-person singular simple present licenses, present participle licensing, simple past and past participle licensed)
- Authorize officially.
- (transitive) (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
- To give formal authorization to use.
- To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
- To give formal authorization to use.
- (linguistics, transitive) To permit (as grammatically correct).
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- license in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- license in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Licence in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- selenic, silence
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