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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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vein
English
Alternative forms
- wayn (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin v?na (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See v?na for more. Displaced native edre, from ?dre (whence edder).
Pronunciation
- enPR: v?n, IPA(key): /ve?n/
- Homophones: vain, vane
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
vein (plural veins)
- (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
- (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
- (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
- (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
- A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
- (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
- (figuratively) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- (figuratively) A style, tendency, or quality.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
- 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth
- A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
- I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins
Related terms
- in the same vein
- veined
- veinless
- veinlet
- veinlike
- veinstone
- veiny
- venation
- venous
- blue-veined cheese
- deep vein thrombosis
- pulmonary vein
- varicose vein
Translations
Verb
vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)
- To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
- 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,[1]
- […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]
- 1920, Melville Davisson Post, The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, Chapter 14,[2]
- “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”
- 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,[1]
See also
- artery
- blood vessel
- capillary
- circulatory system
- phlebitis
- vena cava
Further reading
- vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vein in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vein at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Vien, Vine, nevi, vine
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin v?num. Doublet of viin.
Noun
vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)
- wine
Declension
Derived terms
- punane vein
- valge vein
Finnish
Verb
vein
- first-person singular indicative past of viedä
Anagrams
- evin, vien
Gallo
Etymology
From Old French vin, from Latin v?num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom.
Noun
vein m (plural veins)
- wine
Icelandic
Etymology
Back-formation from veina (“to wail”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vei?n/
- Rhymes: -ei?n
Noun
vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)
- wail, lament
Declension
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French vain, from Latin v?nus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.
Adjective
vein
- vain (worthless, useless)
- vain (futile, ineffectual)
- unfounded, false, misleading
- (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible
Alternative forms
- veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine
Descendants
- English: vain
- Scots: vane, vain, vaine
Noun
vein (uncountable)
- something that is worthless or futile
- idleness, triviality
Alternative forms
- weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)
Descendants
- English: vain
References
- “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
vein (plural veines)
- Alternative form of veine (“vein”)
Etymology 3
Adverb
vein
- Alternative form of fain
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