Dictionary Entry
supply
supply is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
- 5noun
The act of supplying; supplial.
- 6noun
That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
- 7noun
Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
- 10noun
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.
- 11adjective
Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
- 12noun
the activity of supplying or providing something
- 13noun
offering goods and services for sale
- 14noun
an amount of something available for use
- 15verb
state or say further
"`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"
- 16verb
give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
"The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
- 17verb
give something useful or necessary to
"We provided the room with an electrical heater"
- 18verb
circulate or distribute or equip with
"issue a new uniform to the children"
"supply blankets for the beds"
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