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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multiple Adjective
( en adjective)
Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
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, magazine=( American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything
, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
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Synonyms
* (l)
* (l)
* (l)
* (l)
* (l)
Antonyms
* (many) (l) (rare)
Derived terms
* Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton)
* multiple algebra
* multiple conjugation
* multiple exposure
* multiple fruits
* multiple orgasm
* multiple star
Related terms
* multi-
* multiplier
* multiplicity
* multiply
Noun
( en noun)
(mathematics) A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.
* 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
(finance) Price-earnings ratio.
One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
A single individual who has multiple personalities.
* 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
- I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
* 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
- Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.
Derived terms
* common multiple
* least common multiple
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