What's the difference between supple and supply?

Supple


Definition:

  • (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
  • (a.) Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.
  • (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
  • (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
  • (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
  • (v. i.) To become soft and pliant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (Acta Chir Scand [Suppl] 346:1-12, 1965) was determined.
  • (2) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (3) Ultrastructural studies of Aeromonas hydrophila strain AH26 revealed two distinctive pilus types: "straight" pili appear as brittle, rod-like filaments, whereas "flexible" pili are supple and curvilinear.
  • (4) Priestman (Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol 25:529-533, 1989 [Suppl]) reported on a pilot and randomized study with ondansetron after single doses of 8 to 10 Gy to the upper abdomen.
  • (5) 11 (suppl 14) 331 (abstract)] [14] also indicates that sensitivity to 4-HC can be used to distinguish primitive progenitor cells from committed progenitor cells.
  • (6) Large-scale clinical trials have established that lowering blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate diastolic hypertension results in a decreased incidence of stroke and, to a lesser extent, a reduction in incidence of coronary heart disease [MacMahon SW, Cutler JA, Furberg CD, et al: Prog Cardiovasc Dis 1986; 29 (suppl 1): 99-118].
  • (7) We have used either superior or inferior flaps but over the last 25 years we have preferred the latter type of flap (Rosenthal) which produces better results because: 1) it is retracted laterally to a lesser degree, 2) it is more supple, 3) it is attached below and posteriorly to the soft palate (which permits the pharyngeal constrictor muscles, during contraction, to apply pressure against the lateral borders of the flap, and thus avoid any nasal regurgitation).
  • (8) "When you're inside an idea it's hard to think of it as ambitious, but yes it is a huge mountain we are climbing, it's a huge sea we are crossing," said Supple.
  • (9) Wide subperiosteal undermining in primary surgical correction of labio-maxillary clefts not only enhances the osteogenic activity of the periosteum but in addition, if the exposure is extended from the superior limit of the ascending maxillary process and the nasal bone to the inferior orbital rim above the infra-orbital foramen and the malar eminence, good suppleness of the overlying muscles can be achieved.
  • (10) The authors observed an abnormal frequency of laryngo-tracheal stenosis over a period of three months, corresponding to the use of a defective lot of supple catheters for single use and made of polyvinyl chloride.
  • (11) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
  • (12) One may thus carry out by an extremely benign operation without any mortality, a surgical cure not only of supple stenoses, but also of certain tight fibrous stenoses, considered insuperable.
  • (13) The second stage of the reeducation concerns the tongue moving tonicity and suppleness.
  • (14) This flap provides thin, supple skin for reconstruction of moderately sized vaginal defects leaving a minimal donor defect.
  • (15) Preoperative requirements include a well-motivated patient with a supple digit and an established wide discrepancy between the active and passive ranges of digital motion.
  • (16) Microscopic normalization of the actinically damaged epidermis and papillary dermis was manifested clinically by the replacement of dermatoheliosis with supple, smooth-textured facial skin that remained clinically evident well beyond 8 years after dermabrasion.
  • (17) Speedy postpartum weight loss isn't just for celebs In Karnataka, southern India, older women in the community who care for new mothers urge them to become thinner than they were before pregnancy, "like the tip of a mantani leaf – thin, slender, fresh and supple," says Dr Saraswathy Ganapathy of the Belaku Trust , which works to improve the lives of women in the area.
  • (18) Suppl 2 decreased plasma triglycerides, further increased the RBC alpha-tocopherol, moderately increased the RBC double-bond index, but decreased the RBC total fatty acid-cholesterol ratio.
  • (19) He tests the suppleness of his editing muscles by running a clip of film, noting where the actor blinks, then re-playing and halting at exactly that frame (there's 24 of them a second).
  • (20) LBA was done using a supple balloon catheter (LBA-c) which was placed blind down the intubation tube, until a distal bronchus was blocked (under radiographic control).

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.