supply

Meanings

Verb

• 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.
• To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• 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.

Noun

• The act of supplying.
• An amount of something supplied.
• provisions.
• 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.

Adverb

• Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

Origin

• From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin supplere ("to fill up, make full, complete, supply").
• The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.
• supple + -ly