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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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plenty
English
Etymology
From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pl?nti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?pl?nti/, [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
- Rhymes: -?nti
- Homophone: Pliny (pin-pen merger, silent 't')
Noun
plenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)
- A more-than-adequate amount.
- We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
- 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population:
- During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage
Usage notes
While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun, or as both a noun and a pronoun.
Synonyms
- abundance
- profusion
Derived terms
Translations
Pronoun
plenty
- More than enough.
- I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.
Usage notes
See the notes about the noun.
Adverb
plenty (not comparable)
- More than sufficiently.
- This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
- (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
- She was plenty mad at him.
Translations
Determiner
plenty
- (nonstandard) much, enough
- There'll be plenty time later for that
- (nonstandard) many
- Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
Adjective
plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)
- (obsolete) plentiful
- 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
- if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
- There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.
- 1836, The American Gardener's Magazine and Register, volume 2, page 279:
- Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; […]
- 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
Translations
Related terms
- plenitude
- plentitude
References
Anagrams
- pentyl
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