Supply vs Proffer - What's the difference?
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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.
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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.
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* 1938 , David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists :
* 1963 , Johanna Moosdorf, Next door :
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An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.
Essay; attempt.
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
Indefinite plural of .
Supply is a related term of proffer.
As verbs the difference between supply and proffer
is that supply is to provide (something), to make (something) available for use while proffer is to offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.As nouns the difference between supply and proffer
is that supply is (uncountable) the act of supplying while proffer is an offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.As an adverb supply
is supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.supply
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—'
External links
* * * English heteronymsproffer
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* proffre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- (Milton)