Supply vs Apply - What's the difference?
supply | apply |
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
To furnish or equip with.
To fill up, or keep full.
To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
* 1881 , :
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
* Waller
* Dryden
To act as a substitute.
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
(uncountable) The act of supplying.
(countable) An amount of something supplied.
(in the plural) provisions.
(mostly, in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
* 1906 , Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court , page 68:
* 1938 , David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists :
* 1963 , Johanna Moosdorf, Next door :
* 1988 , ??????? ?????????????? ???????? (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), Quiet flows the Don (translated), volume 1, page 96:
To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);—with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
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To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.
* (rfdate) Milton,
To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
* 1611 , '', ''Proverbs 23:12,
To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
* Alexander Pope
* (rfdate) Johnson
To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
(obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) To visit.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between supply and apply
is that supply is to provide (something), to make (something) available for use while apply is to lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);—with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.As a noun supply
is (uncountable) the act of supplying.As an adverb supply
is supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.As an adjective apply is
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English
(wikipedia supply)Alternative forms
* supplelyEtymology 1
From (etyl) souploier, from (etyl) .Verb
- to supply money for the war
- (Prior)
- to supply''' a furnace with fuel; to '''supply soldiers with ammunition
- Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
- 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.
- Burning ships the banished sun supply .
- The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
- to supply a pulpit
Derived terms
* supplierNoun
(supplies)- supply and demand
- A supply of good drinking water is essential.
- to vote supplies
Derived terms
* supply teacherEtymology 2
Adverb
(en adverb)- His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply .
- She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent supply to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.
- 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—'
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) applier, ((etyl) appliquer), from (etyl) . See applicant, ply.Verb
(en-verb)- Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied .
- Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- sacred vows applied to grisly Pluto
- I applied myself to him for help.
- I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.
- Most of the colleges she applied to were ones she thought she had a good chance of getting into.
- Many of them don't know it, but almost a third of the inmates are eligible to apply for parole or work-release programs.
- That rule only applies to foreigners.
- She was skillful in applying his humours.
- His armour was so clear, / And he applied each place so fast, that like a lightning thrown / Out of the shield of Jupiter, in every eye he shone.