Provisions vs Aliment - What's the difference?

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Provisions is a related term of aliment.

As nouns the difference between provisions and aliment

is that provisions is while aliment is food.

As verbs the difference between provisions and aliment

is that provisions is (provision) while aliment is (obsolete) to feed, nourish.

provisions

English

Noun

(head)

Verb

(head)

(provision)

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aliment

English

Noun

(en noun)

Food.

(figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.

* Francis Bacon

aliments of their sloth and weakness

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 356:

All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?

(Scotland) An allowance for maintenance.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To feed, nourish.

To sustain, support.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 434:

Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.

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