“supplied” is a form of
supply
/səˈplaɪ/ verb, noun, adverb
Forms supplies supplying supplied supplely
- verb (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use. “to supply money for the war”
- verb (transitive) To furnish or equip with. “to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition”
- verb (transitive) To fill up, or keep full. “Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.”
- verb (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- verb (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- verb (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- verb (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of. “to supply a pulpit”
- noun (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- noun (countable) An amount of something supplied. “A supply of good drinking water is essential.”
- noun (economics) The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself. “Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.”
- noun (in the plural) Provisions. “They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.”
- noun (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures. “to vote supplies”
- noun Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- adverb Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
Synonyms
fulfill line provision supplying provide render furnish issue ply cater add append
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin suppleo (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.
From supple + -ly.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb To serve instead of; to take the place of. Burning ships the banished sun supply. Waller.
- noun The act of supplying; supplial. A. Tucker.
- noun That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
Etymology [For older supploy, F. suppléer, OF. also supployer, (assumed) LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to fill, akin to plenus full. See Plenty.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “supply”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details