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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To serve instead of; to take the place of.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive verb. To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
5. noun. The act of supplying; supplial.
6. noun. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
7. noun. Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
10. noun. 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.
11. adjective. Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
12. noun. the activity of supplying or providing something

    Synonyms: provision, supplying

13. noun. offering goods and services for sale
14. noun. an amount of something available for use
15. verb. state or say further

    "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"

    Synonyms: add, append

16. verb. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance

    "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

    Synonyms: cater, ply, provide

17. verb. give something useful or necessary to

    "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

    Synonyms: furnish, provide, render

18. verb. circulate or distribute or equip with

    "issue a new uniform to the children"

    "supply blankets for the beds"

    Synonyms: issue

Synonyms

provision, supplying, add, append, cater, ply, provide, furnish, render, issue

Common word forms

supplied, supplier, supplies, supplying

Words from these letters

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