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Erection vs Supply - What's the difference?

erection | supply |

As nouns the difference between erection and supply

is that erection is erection while supply is (uncountable) the act of supplying.

As a verb supply is

to provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

As an adverb supply is

supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

erection

English

(wikipedia erection)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of building]] or putting up or together of something; construction. [[File:Marquee,_Throope_Manor_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1491075.jpg, thumb, Erection of a large tent
  • (countable) Anything erected or built.
    • The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection .
  • (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
  • * 1997 , Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law , Princeton University Press (1997), ISBN 9781400822317, page 175:
    • I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society.
  • * 2006 , Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women , Routledge (2006), ISBN 0415979269, unnumbered pages (quoting Simone Beauvoir):
    • There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency,
  • * 2007 , Edward J. Behrend-Martinez, Unfit for Marriage: Impotent Spouses on Trial in the Basque Region of Spain, 1650-1750 , University of Nevada Press (2007), ISBN 9780874176995, page 14:
    • A marriage was only consummated via erection , penetration, and insemination intra vas .
  • (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
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  • * 2008 , Robert Crooks & Karla Baur, Our Sexuality , Thomson Wadsworth (2008), ISBN 9780495095545, page 163:
    • Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.
  • * 2011 , Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies , Wiley Publishing, Inc. (2008), ISBN 9780470270868, page 104:
    • A very rare complication is priapism , where the penis maintains its erection for many hours.
  • (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
    • He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection .
  • * 2002 , Marguerite Crump, No B.O.!: The Head-to-Toe Book of Hygiene for Preteens , Free Spirit Publishing (2005), ISBN 9781575427003, page 85:
    • The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections , even when you don't want them—like during school.
  • * 2006 , Abha Dawesar, That Summer in Paris , Anchor Books (2007), ISBN 9780307275455, page 259:
    • Prem was sure everyone could see his erection through his pants, everyone but Maya, who he had been careful to keep to his side all the time
  • * 2007 , Ken Follett, World Without End , Dutton (2007), ISBN 9780525950073, page 244:
    • He kissed her again, this time with a long, moist kiss that gave him an erection .

    Synonyms

    * (act of building) building, construction. * (anything erected or built) building, construction. * (state of a penis being erect) see also . * (an erect penis) see also .

    Related terms

    * erect * erector

    Anagrams

    *

    supply

    English

    (wikipedia supply)

    Alternative forms

    * supplely

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) souploier, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
    • to supply money for the war
    (Prior)
  • To furnish or equip with.
    • to supply''' a furnace with fuel; to '''supply soldiers with ammunition
  • To fill up, or keep full.
    • Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
  • To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • * 1881 , :
    • 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.
  • To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • * Waller
    • Burning ships the banished sun supply .
  • * Dryden
    • The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
  • 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.
    • to supply a pulpit
    Derived terms
    * supplier
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (supplies)
  • (uncountable) The act of supplying.
    • supply and demand
  • (countable) An amount of something supplied.
    • A supply of good drinking water is essential.
  • (in the plural) provisions.
  • (mostly, 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
    * supply teacher

    Etymology 2

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • 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 :
  • * 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—'

    External links

    * * * English heteronyms