Word Finder - supplies

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The act of supplying.

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supply and demand

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An amount of something supplied.

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A supply of good drinking water is essential.

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(in the plural) provisions.

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(chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.

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to vote supplies

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Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

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To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

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to supply money for the war

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To furnish or equip with.

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to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition

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To fill up, or keep full.

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Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

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To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.

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To serve instead of; to take the place of.

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To act as a substitute.

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To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.

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to supply a pulpit

The men brought all the supplies up from the basement.

There was nothing in the supplies to help?

I need a few supplies.

Lori was still asleep when they dropped the supplies off.

We can use those for supplies.

She slammed the drawer shut and crammed the supplies into her arms.

Megan took her supplies to the car while Clara cooked her food.

Clara was packing the supplies into a sack as she rang them up on an old register.

Supplies of grain, ships and timber for military use were often demanded.

We invite them for dinner, but for the most part, they just do patrols and bring us supplies.

The three men arrived shortly before the truckload of supplies.

Megan pulled the list from her pocket and started reading off the supplies.

Some of her supplies were getting low, anyway.

With the supplies put away, she set up the fan she had purchased, and turned it on low.

After this the island began to furnish con siderable supplies of corn; it was treated as a conquered country, not containing a single free city, and the inhabitants were obliged to pay a tithe in corn and a further money contribution.

The city has extensive manufactures of heavy machinery, electric supplies, brass and copper products and silk goods.

It was devised by the Hudson's Bay Company for carrying freight, as a substitute for the less serviceable canoe, and was named after their York factory, the centre to which the traders brought down the furs for shipment to England and from which they took back merchandise and supplies to the interior of Rupert's Land.

During the Civil War army supplies, ammunition and cannon, and the armour-plate and parts of the machinery for the "Monitor" were made here.

In 1643 Cromwell performed one of his earlier exploits in taking Lowestoft, capturing large supplies and making prisoners of several influential royalists.

It was a one-sided struggle, for without the consent of the congress the president could not raise any money for supplies, and congress refused to vote the budget.

Large quantities of fruits - apples, pears, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, grapes and melons - were exported by special trains to central Europe, where the Turkestan crop was received a short time before the south European supplies ripened.

Cromwell was outmanoeuvred and in a perilous situation, completely cut off from England and from his supplies except from the sea.

He sent 14,000 men into Fifeshire and marched to Perth, which he captured on the 2nd of August, thus cutting off Leslie from the north and his supplies.

A definite area was bound to find a bowman together with his linked pikeman (who bore the shield for both) and to furnish them with supplies for the campaign.

To the temple came the poor farmer to borrow seed corn or supplies for harvesters, &c. - advances which he repaid without interest.

Sulphur mining M h 1 supplies large industries of sulphur-refining and grinding, - in spite of American competition.

Turning now to Leibnitz's conception of the world as a process, we see first that he supplies, in his notion of the underlying reality as force which is represented as spiritual (quelque chose d'analogique au sentiment et a Tappan), both a mechanical and a teleological explanation of its order.

How severely strict medieval abstinence was may be gauged from the fact that armies and garrisons were sometimes, in default of dispensations, as in the case of the siege of Orleans in 1429, reduced to starvation for want of Lenten food, though in full possession of meat and other supplies.

The water stored in such a time supplies the immediate need of the transpiring cells and prevents the injury which would result from their excessive depletion.

The requirements of the several protoplasts must be met by supplies from without, and, as many of them are deep seated, varieties of need arise, so that various members of the colony are set apart for special duties, masses of them being devoted to the discharge of one function, others to that of another, and so on.

Thus the history of nobility at Athens supplies a close analogy to the earlier stages of its history at Rome, but it has nothing answering to its later stages.

As Athens supplies us with a parallel to the older nobility of Rome without any parallel to the later, so Venice supplies us with a parallel to the later nobility of Rome without any parallel to the earlier.

The growth of railways has been accompanied by a world-wide tendency toward the consolidation of small independent ventures into large groups of lines able to aid one another in the exchange of traffic and to effect economies in administration and in tl-_e purchase of supplies.

Only through Lubeck, moreover, could supplies and reinforcements be poured into the German military colonies in Livonia.

Now what supplies this heat?

In March 1646 a cessation of hostilities was arranged between Ormonde and the Catholics; and O'Neill, furnished with supplies by the papal nuncio, Rinuccini, turned against the Scottish parliamentary army under General Monro, who had been operating with fluctuating success in Ireland since April 1642.

O'Neill's chief need was supplies for his forces, and failing to obtain them from Monck he turned once more to Ormonde and the Catholic confederates, with whom he prepared to co-operate more earnestly when Cromwell's arrival in Ireland in August 1649 brought the Catholic party face to face with serious danger.

The rest of Palestine, which is called Coele-Syria, made its submission and furnished supplies.

But Antipater found supplies for the army of Gabinius, who, despite Egyptian and Parthian distractions, restored order according to the will of Antipater.

Chestnut woods are found in the Selino district, and forests of the valonia oak in that of Retimo; in some parts the carob tree is abundant and supplies an important article of consumption.

The town dates from 1780 and owes its rise to the granite quarries at Craignair and elsewhere in the vicinity, from which were derived the supplies used in the construction of the Thames Embankment, the docks at Odessa and Liverpool and other works.

Naturally the company named does not reach all of these points, but its line across the Andes supplies the indispensable link of communication, in the absence of which the east coast towns and the west coast towns have hitherto been as widely separated as if they had been located on different continents-indeed, far more widely separated in point of time and of freight charges than Great Britain and the United States.

After an inconclusive campaign in Munster in January 1600, he returned in haste to Donegal, where he received supplies from Spain and a token of encouragement from Pope Clement VIII.

He was never concerned with civil jurisdiction, and was dependent on the senate for supplies of money.

Only a few days after their departure Sir Richard Grenville arrived with supplies and more colonists, fifteen of whom remained when he sailed away.

White soon returned to England for supplies, and having been detained there until 1591 he found upon his return no trace of the colony except the word " Croatan " carved on a tree; hence the colony was supposed to have gone away with some friendly Indians, possibly the Hatteras tribe, and proof of the assumption that these whites mingled with Indians is sought in the presence in Robeson county of a mixed people with Indian habits and occasional English names, calling themselves Croatans.

Liberal support was given to the Confederacy, both in men and supplies, but Governor Vance, one of the ablest of the Southern war governors, engaged in acrimonious controversies with President Jefferson Davis, contending that the general government of the Confederacy was encroaching upon the prerogatives of the separate states.

The workers in question remain within the nest, suspended by their feet, and serve as living honey-pots for the colony, becoming so distended by the supplies of honey poured into their mouths by their foraging comrades that their abdomens become sub-globular, the pale intersegmental membrane being tightly stretched between the widely-separated dark sclerites.

The " nurse " workers in the nest can then draw their supplies from these " honey-pots."

The warmth, shelter and abundant food in the nests, due both to the fresh supplies brought in by the ants and to the large amount of waste matter that accumulates, must prove strongly attractive to the various " guests."