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supply 音标拼音: [səpl'ɑɪ] n. 补给,供给,供应品
vt. 补给,供给,提供,补充,代理 vi. 替代 补给,供给,供应品补给,供给,提供,补充,代理替代 supply 参考电源 supply 供应 supply n 1: an amount of something available for use 2: offering goods and services for sale [ant: {demand}] 3: the activity of supplying or providing something [synonym: {provision}, {supply}, {supplying}] v 1: give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" [synonym: {supply}, {provide}, {render}, {furnish}] 2: circulate or distribute or equip with; "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds" [synonym: {issue}, {supply}] [ant: {recall}] 3: give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" [synonym: {provide}, {supply}, {ply}, {cater}] 4: state or say further; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied" [synonym: {add}, {append}, {supply}] Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. {Supplies}. 1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker. [1913 Webster] 2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen." --Shak. [1913 Webster] (b) 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. [1913 Webster] (c) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies. [1913 Webster] (d) 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. [1913 Webster] {Stated supply} (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. [U.S.] {Supply and demand}. (Polit. Econ.) "Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price." --F. A. Walker. [1913 Webster] Supply \Sup*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Supplied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Supplying}.] [For older supploy, F. suppl['e]er, OF. also supployer, (assumed) LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under plere to fill, akin to plenus full. See {Plenty}.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To serve instead of; to take the place of. [1913 Webster] Burning ships the banished sun supply. --Waller. [1913 Webster] The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war. --Prior. [1913 Webster] Syn: To furnish; provide; administer; minister; contribute; yield; accommodate. [1913 Webster] Supply \Sup*ply"\, a. Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve. [1913 Webster] {Supply system} (Zool.), the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See Illust. of {Spongiae}. [1913 Webster] 134 Moby Thesaurus words for "supply":
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