OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17248

supply

/səˈplaɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abasto • avituallamiento • oferta • oferta económica • subministración (desus.) • suministración
The act of supplying.
abastecimiento • abasto • suministro
An amount of something supplied.
A supply of good drinking water is essential.
She said, "China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater".
provisiones • suministros • utilería • vitualla • útil
Provisions.
They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
suplente
Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 17247

supply

/səˈplaɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abastar • abastecer • proveer • subministrar (desus.) • suministrar • suplir
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
to supply money for the war
aprovisionar • avituallar • equipar • esquifar • municionar • proveer
To furnish or equip with.
to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
suplir
To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had suppli…
suplir
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
Burning ships the banished sun supply.
The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
suplir
To act as a substitute.