supply

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
发音 səplīʹ

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of supplying. uncountable
  2. An amount of something supplied. countable
    — A supply of good drinking water is essential.
  3. The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself. countable,uncountable
    — Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
  4. Provisions. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
  5. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — to vote supplies
  6. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To provide (something), to make (something) available for use. transitive
    — to supply money for the war
  2. To furnish or equip with. transitive
    — to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
  3. To fill up, or keep full. transitive
    — Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
  4. To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of. transitive
    — It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect.
  5. To serve instead of; to take the place of. transitive
    — Burning ships the banished sun supply.
  6. To act as a substitute. intransitive
  7. To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of. transitive
    — to supply a pulpit
副词 adv.
  1. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
    — His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply.

词形变化

supplies present,singular,third-person supplying participle,present supplied participle,past supplied past supplies plural more supply comparative most supply superlative supplely alternative

词汇关系

近义词
provision
衍生词
oversupply resupply undersupply possession with intent to supply presupply suppliable supplial supplier supplyment supply up surface-supplied diving unsupplied agrosupply blood supply bulk supply confidence and supply furnish and supply high on one's own supply in short supply line of supply loss of supply money supply narcissistic supply perfectly elastic supply perfectly inelastic supply power supply price elasticity of supply self-supply supply and demand supply chain supply chain visibility supply curve supply depot supply line supply network supply priest supply shock supply side supply-side supply-side economics supply-sider supply teacher supply vessel uninterruptible power supply water supply
相关词
suppletion

词源

词源 1
From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin suppleo (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.
词源 2
From supple + -ly.
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