1. supply - Noun
2. supply - Adjective
3. supply - Verb
4. supply - Adverb
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.
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
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.
To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
The act of supplying; supplial.
That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
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.
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
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.
Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings
To him who puts a cord around his neck, God will supply someone to pull it. Tuareg Proverb
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries. Chinese Proverb
If you take a day trip, take a week's supply of bread. Russian Proverb