What's the difference between supply and wellspring?

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.

Wellspring


Definition:

  • (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The current problems and conflicts associated with training of vascular and general surgery residents exemplify the larger dilemma of educating subspecialists while preserving the wellspring of general surgery.
  • (2) The Wellspring Collective – they're good, they've dropped their prices down to compete with other shops, like Ganja Gourmet , right here.
  • (3) yet last week his administration cited as a wellspring of legal authority for the latest war.
  • (4) In Tunisia, the wellspring of the 2011 uprisings, the ruling party is Ennahda – a movement regarded as the Tunisian manifestation of the Brotherhood that, before the revolution, was practically in exile.
  • (5) The planning and cost of that road has overshadowed the long-planned development of a new container port, dubbed the outer harbour, at Kwinana – also outside the Canning electoral boundary, but a potential wellspring of jobs for the working-class suburbs that make up Canning’s northern reaches.
  • (6) Dan’s Silverleaf , part of a terrace of converted warehouses on Industrial Street near the square, is one of the wellsprings of the scene.
  • (7) This is the source of the intense current interest and wellspring of the grief that will flow when he is gone.
  • (8) Without public support, the wellspring from which future innovation and growth will come will dry up – not to say what will happen to our increasingly divided society.
  • (9) Having faced down the totalitarian dangers of fascism and communism, the world expects us to stand up for the principle that every person has the right to think and write and form relationships freely – because individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress.
  • (10) If all political belief originates from one of two wellsprings, if the last thing you should do to propagate your belief is to water it down, if backing it up with facts just weakens it, what would a debate look like, in a world of perfectly understood frames?
  • (11) Star Wars: The Force Awakens review – 'a spectacular homecoming' Read more In this reading, the original evil – the wellspring of Darth Vader and Sidious – is borrowed from Hitler.
  • (12) His own life would have been sadder if the wellspring of laughter inside him had not run so deep.
  • (13) It won’t be easy … but I remain hopeful.” ‘We’re going to leave it all on the field’ Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told the Guardian: “What [everyone is] missing is that although the secretary [Clinton] has obviously racked up a substantial delegate lead, there is an incredible wellspring of support for the senator and it has not really made it through the process.” Weaver seems confident of a win in California.
  • (14) Paul said he was preparing to contest the reauthorization of 702, the legal wellspring of the NSA’s controversial Prism program.
  • (15) The first was to be established in Shanghai, a city that had been the wellspring of the most virulently leftist form of violent Maoist class struggle during the Cultural Revolution.
  • (16) Sensitivity on these issues is understandably high, given the rising incidence of antisemitism and hate crimes of all sorts, as well as Trump’s (possibly waning) closeness to Steve Bannon , whose Breitbart news is a wellspring of bigotry and propaganda.
  • (17) The HDZ has ruled since Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia in 1991, with the exception of a three-year hiatus in 2000-3, and in the past two years has been exposed as the wellspring of state-organised corruption and embezzlement on a massive scale.
  • (18) There is a wellspring of support within the nursing profession for the development of a true nursing paradigm, based on a unified theory to support practice, to advance the professional status of nursing in a changing health care environment.
  • (19) Saudi salafism is not the wellspring of hardline Islamic groups worldwide, but it is part of something that might be – a tendency for Arab and Muslim governments to pay lip service to Islam to bolster their religious credentials through politically expedient means.
  • (20) Civil libertarians consider the measure – the wellspring of the NSA’s Prism and “ upstream ” mass communications-data collection – unconstitutional .