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As verbs the difference between supply and supplies is that supply is (provide, make available for use) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use while supplies is third-person singular of supply.
As nouns the difference between supply and supplies is that supply is the act of supplying while supplies is plural of lang=en.

As an adverb supply is supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

supply

English (wikipedia supply)

Alternative forms * supplely

Etymology 1 From (etyl) souploier, from (etyl) .

Verb

To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

to supply money for the war
(Prior)

To furnish or equip with.

to supply''' a furnace with fuel; to '''supply soldiers with ammunition

To fill up, or keep full.

Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.

* 1881 , :

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 supplied the defect.

To serve instead of; to take the place of.

* Waller

Burning ships the banished sun supply .

* Dryden

The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.

To act as a substitute.

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

Derived terms * supplier

Related terms * (l)

Noun (supplies)

(uncountable) The act of supplying.

supply and demand

(countable) An amount of something supplied.

A supply of good drinking water is essential.

(in the plural) provisions.

(mostly, in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.

to vote supplies

Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

Derived terms * supply teacher

Etymology 2

Adverb ()

Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

* 1906 , Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court , page 68:

His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply .

* 1938 , David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists :

* 1963 , Johanna Moosdorf, Next door :

She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent supply to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.

* 1988 , ??????? ?????????????? ???????? (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), Quiet flows the Don (translated), volume 1, page 96:

Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows.
'They'll see!'
'Let them!'
'I'd be ashamed—'

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