Resource vs Supply - What's the difference?
resource | supply |
Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.
* , chapter=17
, title= To supply with s.
* {{quote-book, 1999, Keith Ballard, Inclusive Education
, passage=All children receive it and, for the most part, do so in institutions that are approved by the state and, to a greater or lesser extent, resourced by the state.}}
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.
* 1881 , :
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.
* 1906 , Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court , page 68:
* 1938 , David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists :
* 1963 , Johanna Moosdorf, Next door :
* 1988 , ??????? ?????????????? ???????? (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), Quiet flows the Don (translated), volume 1, page 96:
As nouns the difference between resource and supply
is that resource is something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel while supply is the act of supplying.As verbs the difference between resource and supply
is that resource is to supply with resources while supply is (provide, make available for use) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.As an adverb supply is
supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.resource
English
(wikipedia resource)Noun
(en noun)Michael Sivak
Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?, passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
Derived terms
* resourceful * human resources * natural resource * renewable resource * subresourceSee also
* meansReferences
* *Verb
(resourc)citation
Anagrams
* recourse ----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—'