supply
give something useful or necessary to
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,523 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,723 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- give something useful or necessary to also: provide, render, furnish We provided the room with an electrical heater
- circulate or distribute or equip with also: issue issue a new uniform to the childrensupply blankets for the beds
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance also: provide, ply, cater The hostess provided lunch for all the guests
- state or say further also: add, append `It doesn't matter,' he supplied
noun
- an amount of something available for use
- offering goods and services for sale
- the activity of supplying or providing something also: provision, supplying
supply in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Is it Maxence who will supply you with money?
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Whence draw ye, honest gentlemen, your constant wind supply?
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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From the school Custos--"Titchy"--a noble supply of stationery was procured.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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After the usual supply of fuel was prepared, Jim returned home.
Our Nig · Harriet E. Wilson · Chapter 1
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Iron crows I caused to supply the place of the first; but with all my art I could not make a wheel-barrow.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1