supplied English
Verb
(head)
(supply)
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 :
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* 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—'
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granted English
Verb
( head)
(grant)
Given, awarded.
- He was granted a patent on his invention.
Adverb
( -)
.
- He's a good student and usually does well. Granted , he did fail that one test, but I think there were good reasons for that.
- ''"You haven't been a very good father." "Granted ."
Preposition
( English prepositions)
(used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument)
- Granted that he has done nothing wrong, he should be set free.
- Granted the lack of evidence, we can make no such conclusion.
Synonyms
* (used to mark the premise of an argument) given
See also
* take for granted
Anagrams
*
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