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equip

/ɪˈkwɪp/

equip verb: to supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).

Verb

equip (third-person singular simple present equips, present participle equipping, simple past equipped, past participle equipped or (archaic) equipt)

  1. (transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
    • Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
    • A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, is equipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.1916, “Indicator Tells Pursuing Police Speed of Automobile”, in Popular Science Monthly/Volume 88
  2. (transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.
    • The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.1711 July 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, July 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 129; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
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  3. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
    • I'm sorry, but I don't feel equipped to answer that kinda question yet.
    • it is no more than proper that you should equip us with a vessel in which to pursue the journey which you interrupted1921, Rafael Sabatini, In Destiny's Clutch
  4. (transitive) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.
    • Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, or equip your sword and attack it at close range.2002, Prima Temp Authors, PlayStation 2: Hot Strategies for Cool Games, page 69

Noun

equip (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Equipment (carried by a game character).

equip meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

equip in Tamil

ஏற்பாடுகள் செய்து வை, அளி, ஆயத்தப்படுத்து, அடையப்பெறு, கொண்டிரு

equip in Urdu

آراستہ کرنا

equip in Bengali

সজ্জিত করা, সরঞ্জাম সরবরাহ করা

equip in Malayalam

സജ്ജീകരിക്കുക, സന്നദ്ധമാക്കുക
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equip in Kannada
ಅಗತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಪೂರೈಸು, ಒದಗಿಸು, ಸಜ್ಜುಗೊಳಿಸು, ಅಣಿಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳು
equip in Odia
ସଜାଡ଼ିବା sajāṛibā
equip in Sanskrit
सज्जयति sajjayati, युज् yuj, योजयति yojayati, संयुज् saṃyuj
equip in Nepali
सुसज्जित गर्ने

Examples of equip in a sentence

  • The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.
  • Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings.
  • The local council have set up a new playground, equipped with slides, swings, and a climbing wall.

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Synonyms of equip

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Forms of equip

third-person singular presentequips
present participleequipping
pastequipped
past participleequipped
past participle (archaic)equipt

Past tense of equip: equipped

Origin of equip

From French équiper (“to supply, fit out”), originally said of a ship, Old French esquiper (“to embark”); of Germanic origin, most probably from Old Norse skipa (“to man (a ship)”), from Proto-Germanic *skipōną (“to ship, sail, embark”). Compare with Middle High German schipfen, German schiffern, Icelandic skipa, Old English scipian. Doublet of ship.

Words formed from equip

Phrases with equip

Words that rhyme with equip

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Questions about equip

What does equip mean?
Equip means to supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
What is equip in Tamil?
Equip in Tamil is ஏற்பாடுகள் செய்து வை, அளி, ஆயத்தப்படுத்து. See Equip meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is equip?
Equip can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce equip?
Equip is pronounced /ɪˈkwɪp/.
What is the past tense of equip?
The past tense of equip is equipped.

Words near equip in the dictionary

  1. equinus
  2. equioscillation
  3. equioscillations
  4. equiosmolar
  5. equiosmotic
  6. equip
  7. Equip.
  8. equipable
  9. equipage
  10. equipaged
  11. equipages

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: equip (page history and authors); equip (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); equip (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Equip (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); equip (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); equip (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ସଜାଡ଼ିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); युज् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); equip (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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