supply

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To make available for use; provide.
• transitive verb To provide something necessary or desired to; furnish or equip: synonym: furnish.
• transitive verb To have as a necessary or desirable feature.
• transitive verb To fill sufficiently; satisfy.
• transitive verb To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for.
• noun The act of supplying.
• noun An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock.
• noun Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed.
• noun Economics The amount of a commodity available for meeting a demand or for purchase at a given price.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To furnish with what is wanted; afford or furnish a sufficiency for; make provision for; satisfy; provide: with with before that which is provided: as, to supply the poor with clothing.
• To serve instead of; take the place of; repair, as a vacancy or loss; fill: especially applied to places that have become vacant; specifically, of a pulpit, to occupy temporarily.
• To give; grant; afford; provide; furnish.
• To replenish or strengthen as any deficiency occurs; reinforce.
• noun The act of supplying what is wanted.
• noun That which is supplied; means of provision or relief; sufficiency for use or need; a quantity of something supplied or on hand; a stock; a store.
• noun In political economics, the amount or quantity of any commodity that is on the market and is available for purchase.
• noun plural Necessaries collected and held for distribution and use; stores: as, the army was cut off from its supplies.
• noun plural A grant of money provided by a national legislature to meet the expenses of government.
• noun Additional troops; reinforcements; succors.
• noun A person who temporarily takes the place of another; a substitute; specifically, a clergyman who officiates in a vacant charge, or in the temporary absence of the pastor.
• noun the engineer corps, to furnish portable military bridges, pontoons, intrenching-tools, torpedoes, and torpedo-supplies;
• noun the quartermaster's department, which furnishes clothing, fuel, forage, quarters, transportation, and camp and garrison equipage;
• noun the subsistence department, which furnishes the provisions; and
• noun the medical department, which provides medicines, medical and hospital stores, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of supplying; supplial.
• noun That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
• noun Auxiliary troops or reënforcements.
• noun The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural.
• noun An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural.
• noun A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
• noun (Eccl.), [U.S.] a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor.
• noun (Polit. Econ.) “Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price.” F. A. Walker.
• transitive verb To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; ; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished.
• transitive verb To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• transitive verb To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
• transitive verb To give; to bring or furnish; to provide.
• adjective Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See Illust. of Spongiæ.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adverb Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
• verb transitive To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• verb transitive To furnish or equip with.
• verb transitive To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• verb intransitive To act as a substitute.
• noun uncountable The act of supplying.
• noun countable An amount of something supplied.
• noun in the plural provisions.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb circulate or distribute or equip with
• noun the activity of supplying or providing something
• verb give something useful or necessary to
• noun an amount of something available for use