What's the difference between provision and supply?

Provision


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
  • (n.) That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.
  • (n.) Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural.
  • (n.) That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.
  • (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
  • (n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
  • (v. t.) To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the provision of dental care showed significant differences, with the handicapped children receiving less restorative treatment.
  • (2) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
  • (3) It was designed to ensure that the institute remained the leading international centre in its field, officials said, and would not affect the provision of core services or student supervision.
  • (4) It is argued that the provision of accurate and useful probabilistic assessments of future events should be a fundamental task for biostatisticians collaborating in clinical or experimental medicine, and we explore two aspects of obtaining and evaluating such predictions.
  • (5) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
  • (6) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
  • (7) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
  • (8) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
  • (9) However, a variety of policy initiatives were introduced both to restructure National Health Service (NHS) expenditure, and to facilitate private provision of health services.
  • (10) This can only be achieved by a well prepared and equipped team dedicated to provision of this care.
  • (11) Provision of breast feeding education, along with improved maternal nutrition, extension of maternity leave, and availability of nurseries at the work place, may sustain a longer period of breast feeding.
  • (12) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
  • (13) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
  • (14) Since group therapy and sensory stimulation over a relatively short period can result in clinical and testable improvement, the diagnosis of "chronic brain syndrome" in the elderly should not be allowed to preclude the provision of appropriate psychiatric therapy.
  • (15) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.
  • (16) In 2013, documents leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden revealed an internal NSA rule that Senator Ron Wyden has called the “backdoor search provision”, for instance.
  • (17) Alternatives in financing medical care services currently under debate include various provisions to control costs and utilization, but attention should be directed to organizing American medical care services in general, toward the more rational use of our resources.
  • (18) Conical root shapes without special provision of retention are not suitable.
  • (19) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
  • (20) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.

Supply


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
  • (n.) The act of supplying; supplial.
  • (n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
  • (n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (a.) Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (5) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (6) Also for bronchogenic carcinoma with that a dependence could be shown between haemoglobin concentration--and by this the oxygen supply of the tumor--and the reaction of the primary tumor after radiotherapy.
  • (7) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
  • (8) In addition, the findings suggest a need for a supply of glucose of fetal origin for cells that are responsible for increased PGFM concentrations in the maternal uteroplacental circulation.
  • (9) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
  • (10) A controlled supply of cytostatics is also possible.
  • (11) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
  • (12) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
  • (13) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
  • (14) However, when beta-xyloside-treated cultures were supplied with exogenous basement membrane, Schwann cells produced numerous myelin segments.
  • (15) Ferredoxin reductase (Fd-reductase) supplies reducing equivalents obtained from NADPH to mitochondrial cytochrome P450 enzymes via the small iron-sulfur protein ferredoxin.
  • (16) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
  • (17) The al-Shifa, like hospitals across Gaza, is chronically short of medical supplies after treating thousands of wounded during the conflict.
  • (18) The results presented here substantiate the hypothesis that in S. cerevisiae trehalose supplies energy during dormancy of the spores and not during the germination process.
  • (19) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
  • (20) Those with an increase of 15% in mean PEFR in the week on active treatment and who experienced subjective benefit should be supplied with a compressor.