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Parade vs Supply - What's the difference?

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Parade is a related term of supply.


As verbs the difference between parade and supply

is that parade is while supply is to provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

As a noun supply is

(uncountable) the act of supplying.

As an adverb supply is

supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

parade

English

(wikipedia parade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd.
    • The floats and horses in the parade were impressive, but the marching bands were really amazing.
  • Any succession, series, or display of items.
    • The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.
    a parade of shops
  • A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
  • The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
  • Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade .
  • (Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
  • * John Locke
    • when they are not in parade , and upon their guard
  • A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
    • He was parked on Chester Parade .

    Derived terms

    * hit parade * military parade * victory parade * pride parade * techno parade * parade of horribles * ticker tape parade * rain on someone's parade

    Verb

    (parad)
  • To march or to display.
    • They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.
  • To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
    • They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
    Parading all her sensibility. Byron.
  • To march past.
    • After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

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    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—'

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