What's the difference between provision and victual?

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.

Victual


Definition:

  • (n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
  • (n.) Grain of any kind.
  • (v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He became chair of the Society of Licensed Victuallers, recognised for his fundraising work.
  • (2) The claim for a zero tolerance for victuals and ready-to-use baby foods is corroborated.
  • (3) A hypothesis is framed about which any influences of the nutrition may cause variations of the cranium, but concerning physiological data, kinds of nutrition and special victuals' ingredients cannot still be mentioned.
  • (4) West and east Indian trade founded merchant dynasties, but also created a hinterland of ship builders, outfitters, victuallers, warehousemen, carriers and wholesalers.
  • (5) Data were collected from the stores accounts of six ships over a period of 32,354 man-victualling-days.
  • (6) In 1849 C. D. Schroff established therein the Institute for Experimental Pharmacology of Vienna University and around 1864 A. E. Vogl began his outstanding microscopic investigations of pharmacologically relevant plants and of victuals.