Supply vs Suffice - What's the difference?
supply | suffice |
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 :
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To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
* Milton
To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
* 1838 , The Church of England quarterly review (page 203)
To furnish; to supply adequately.
In lang=en terms the difference between supply and suffice
is that supply is to fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of while suffice is to satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.As verbs the difference between supply and suffice
is that supply is to provide (something), to make (something) available for use while suffice is to be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.As a noun supply
is (uncountable) the act of supplying.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—'
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English
Verb
(suffic)- Two capsules of fish oil a day suffices .
- To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice ?
- A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
- Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.