supply

/səˈplaɪ/

意味: 供給、備品

例文: The supply of bread ran out.
　　  パンの供給が尽きた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: supply chain(供給連鎖), water supply(水供給), supply and demand(供給と需要)

定義: 供給とは、必要なものを提供することです。例えば、食べ物や水、電気などを人々や場所に届けることを指します。供給は、何かを必要としている人や場所に対して、それを届けるためのプロセスやシステムを含みます。

supplyは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an amount of something available for use
Noun: offering goods and services for sale
Noun: the activity of supplying or providing something
Verb: give something useful or necessary to
Verb: circulate or distribute or equip with
Verb: give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
Verb: state or say further

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Verb: We provided the room with an electrical heater
Verb: issue a new uniform to the children
Verb: supply blankets for the beds
Verb: The hostess provided lunch for all the guests
Verb: `It doesn’t matter,’ he supplied

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): add, append, cater, furnish, issue, ply, provide, provision, render, supply, supplying

Antonyms(反意語): demand, recall

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): activity, distribute, economic process, give, indefinite quantity, state

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accord, acting, add, addition, aid, allow, announce, answer, articulate, attempt, bag, behavior, bestow, breakage, burst, buzz, calibration, capacity, catch, ceremony, concealment, concede, containerful, continuance, contribute, control, correction, cough up, creation, cup of tea, declare, deflation, demand, deposit, disinflation, dismantling, distribute, diversion, domesticity, dose, economic growth, education, energizing, enfeoff, enjoyment, explain, follow-up, footstep, fun, game, get out, give, globalization, grouping, headspace, heap, inflation, issue, lamentation, large indefinite quantity, last, laughter, leadership, lease, lend, limit, liveliness, load, market, market forces, measurement, misstate, music, mystification, negotiation, note, occupation, offer, operation, organization, outage, output, pay, perturbation, placement, pleasure, politics, practice, precede, precession, precipitation, preparation, present, procedure, protection, provide, provision, puncture, region, release, render, representation, requite, reserve, reticulate, role, run, search, sensory activity, service, sin, skinful, small indefinite quantity, solo, space walk, spare, spillage, spiral, spoilage, summarize, supply, support, tankage, timekeeping, top-up, training, turn, ullage, use, variation, verbalization, vest, waste, work, works, worship, worth, writing, wrongdoing

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): accommodate, air-cool, alphabetize, arm, bed, berth, bewhisker, board, border, bottom, brattice, bush, calk, canal, capitalize, caption, cater, causeway, charge, cleat, coal, computerize, constitutionalize, copper-bottom, corbel, cornice, costume, crenel, curtain, dado, date, drench, equip, extend, feed, feeding, fix up, flood, free, fret, fuel, fueling, fund, furnish, gate, glass, grate, gratify, gutter, hat, headline, headquarter, healthcare delivery, heat, hobnail, horse, hydrate, index, innervate, interleave, irrigation, issue, joint, kern, key, leverage, logistics, machicolate, match, meet, nourish, offer, pander, partner, patch, pour, power, provision, pump, purveyance, rafter, rail, railroad, ramp, reflectorize, regale, reissue, reservoir, retrofit, rim, sanitate, seat, serve, shelter, shower, signalize, slat, slip in, staff, step, stint, stock, stocking, subtitle, subvention, surfeit, tap, terrace, theme, ticket, toggle, tool, top, toss in, transistorize, tube, unblock, underlay, uniform, upholster, victual, water, wharf, wive, yield

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: caterer, issue, issuer, issuing, provide, provider, provision, supplier, supply, supplying

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ly

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive