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Delivery vs Supply - What's the difference?

delivery | supply |

As nouns the difference between delivery and supply

is that delivery is the act of conveying something while supply is the act of supplying.

As a verb 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.

delivery

English

Noun

(deliveries)
  • The act of conveying something.
    • The delivery was completed by four.
    delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
  • The item which has been conveyed.
    • Your delivery is on the table.
  • The act of giving birth
    • The delivery was painful.
  • (baseball) A pitching motion.
    • ''His delivery has a catch in it.
  • (baseball) A thrown pitch.
    • ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
  • The manner of speaking.
    • The actor's delivery was flawless.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman}}
  • (medicine) administration of a drug
    • Drug delivery system .
  • (cricket) A ball .
  • (curling) The process of throwing a stone.

    • Derived terms

    * delivery room * special delivery

    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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