supply

1. v. t. 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. Source: opted

2. v. t. To serve instead of; to take the place of. Source: opted

3. v. t. 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. Source: opted

4. v. t. To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war. Source: opted

5. n. The act of supplying; supplial. Source: opted

6. n. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Source: opted

7. n. Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. Source: opted

8. n. 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. Source: opted

9. n. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies. Source: opted

10. n. 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. Source: opted

11. a. Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve. Source: opted

12. n. an amount of something available for use Source: wordnet

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