(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.
Unplug
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In Patient 2, rhinorrhoea and presumably entry of infection was facilitated by unplugging of a defect in the wall of the sphenoid sinus by bromocriptine-induced shrinkage of the pituitary adenoma.
(2) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
(3) She performed an emotional rendition of Open Your Heart at this year's Grammy awards as 33 couples were wed onstage during a performance by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and also guested on Miley Cyrus's MTV Unplugged set.
(4) Rather than having to manually unplug or switch off household electrical devices to save energy, plug-and-play technology for the home automatically detects all idle devices and disables them remotely.
(5) To underline the case that Scotland would be left out in the cold in what it calls an "intelligence unplugged" scenario, it stresses that GCHQ's capabilities to intercept the content of phone calls, emails and other communications and to acquire the communications data or metadata tracking individuals' internet and phone use, make "an enormous contribution to the prevention and detection of crime throughout the UK".
(6) For all The Tube's faults, from the unplugged microphone given to a striking miner to providing Kajagoogoo with microphones that were tragically plugged in, it might just have been as rampageous as live music television will ever get.
(7) It’s also worth remembering Nirvana’s spectral cover of The Man Who Sold the World , immortalised on their Unplugged Live in New York performance recorded five months before Kurt Cobain’s death, which indicated exactly how much alternative American music owed to Bowie.
(8) Measurements were made during inhalation of 26-30% stable xenon gas for 8 min and serial scanning utilizing a state-of the-art CT scanner with both eyes closed and ears unplugged.
(9) We cannot unplug our society any more The last preparatory step is to understand the depth of the consequences of our decisions in designing the infosphere.
(10) The only way you can securely communicate with another individual ... is to do it in person, unplugged, because virtually everything else, as Snowden’s work describes, could be residing in a database that a prosecutor could access to build a criminal prosecution.
(11) I suggest that ADH stimulation ultimately leads either to formation (or enlargement) of pores, by the rearrangement of preexisting subunits, or to an unplugging of these pores.
(12) These aqueous pores are similar in conductance to those previously observed in mammalian endoplasmic reticulum when puromycin is used to release and thus unplug nascent translocating chains.
(13) The eyes with the punctal plugs showed a statistically significant (P less than .0001) decrease in pressure of 1.32 mm Hg after punctal occlusion when compared to that of the fellow control unplugged eyes.
(14) But I reject this: if you want to do something to help someone in distress, as George Carlin famously riffed, unplug their clogged toilet or paint the garage .
(15) In the last few weeks I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Clinton on Trump: ‘It makes you want to unplug the internet or just look at cat gifs’ The first lady, Michelle Obama, also hit the campaign trail for Clinton, giving a fiery rebuke to Trump in a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
(16) 2.4%, we experienced unplugging of the anterior 12 o'clock positioned loop, apparently a result of the loop being held with the insertions forceps during insertion.
(17) Commenting on her opponent’s troubles – and the travails of the election, generally – she said: “It makes you want to unplug the internet – or just look at cat gifs.
(18) That's all far away; Burkhart would unplug and go home and be stuck with a body that still didn't follow his orders, at least not yet.
(19) So all credit to those who gamely struggled through the whole of the first telly Brexit debate, featuring David Cameron live and unplugged on Sky News .
(20) "[Having to] sell your homes, unplug your kids from school.