supplies
Syllables: sup·plies/səˈplaɪz/
supplies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of supply.
supplies is the plural of supply.
Meaning of supply
Verb
supply (third-person singular simple present supplies, present participle supplying, simple past and past participle supplied)
- To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- to supply money for the war
- Synonyms:
- fulfill
- To furnish or equip with.
- to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
- Synonyms:
- line
- To fill up, or keep full.
- Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
- 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 supplied the defect.1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
- To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- Burning ships the banished sun supply.1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter
- To act as a substitute.
Noun
supplies
Phrases with supplies
Words that rhyme with supplies
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- arise
- capsize
- comprise
- guise
- revise
- abscise
- agrise
- apprise
- chastise
- despise
- flys
- guys
- lyse
- palatalize
- pies
- prise
- skies
- snies
- sties
- surmise
- ties
- tries
- velarize
- aguise
- applies
- authorize
- ayes
- belies
- brise
- buys
- byes
- complies
- cries
- dies
- dries
- dyes
- excise
- eyes
- flies
- flyes
- four eyes
- frankenpies
- fries
- Frise
- hies
- highs
- home fries
- i's
Questions about supplies
- What does supplies mean?
- Supplies means financial resources supplied, often for a particular purpose.
- What is supplies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Supplies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of supply.
- What part of speech is supplies?
- Supplies is a noun.
- How do you pronounce supplies?
- Supplies is pronounced /səˈplaɪz/.
Words near supplies in the dictionary
Source and license
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