Supply
To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
The act of supplying; supplial.
That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
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Supply Quotations
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
Carter G. Woodson
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
Carter G. Woodson
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
Robert Collier
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett Marden
Supply Translations
supply in Afrikaans is inlewer, lewer, voorraad, aflewer
supply in Dutch is aanvoer, bezorging
supply in French is livraison, fournir, pourvoir, provision, munir
supply in German is eingeben, versorgen, speisen, liefern, beschaffen
supply in Italian is fornitura, rifornimento, provvedere, fornire
supply in Latin is ministro, exorno, suggero, praebeo, copia
supply in Norwegian is levere
supply in Portuguese is fonte
supply in Spanish is suministro, suministrar, reten, proveer
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