Supplied vs Offered - What's the difference?
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(supply)
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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(offer)
A proposal that has been made.
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Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
(label) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
(lb) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
*Bible, (w) xxix. 36
*:Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
(lb) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
*2009 , Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a
*:The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.
(lb) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
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(lb) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
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(lb) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
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, title= (lb) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
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(lb) To happen, to present itself.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The occasion offers , and the youth complies.
*1749 , (John Cleland), (w) , Penguin 1985, p.64:
*:The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep.
(lb) To make an attempt; used with at .
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:I will not offer at that I cannot master.
*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
*:He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:without offering at any other remedy
(lb) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
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(used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
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As verbs the difference between supplied and offered
is that supplied is past tense of supply while offered is past tense of offer.supplied
English
Verb
(head)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 heteronymsoffered
English
Verb
(head)offer
English
(wikipedia offer)Alternative forms
* offre (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) offer, from (etyl) . See verb below.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* make an offerEtymology 2
From (etyl) offren, offrien, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to -infinitive. SeeEtymology 3
Noun
(en noun)citation, isbn=t0595297498 9780595297498 , page=146 , passage=Once you finally discover yourself a dismember-er, a de-limber, a fucking head-cutter-offer , the most simple of tasks — enjoying a long walk outside, seeing a movie, conversing with a stranger in the library — all become prized and over-inflated moments of elation.}}