EQUIP (equipped, equipping)

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Irregular inflected forms: equipped    , equipping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does equip mean? 

• EQUIP (verb)
  The verb EQUIP has 2 senses:

1. provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose

2. provide with abilities or understanding

  Familiarity information: EQUIP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they equip    ... he / she / it equips   
Past simple: equipped   
Past participle: equipped   
-ing form: equipping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

equip; fit; fit out; outfit

Context example:

The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities

Hypernyms (to "equip" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "equip"):

muzzle (fit with a muzzle)

commission (put into commission; equip for service; of ships)

adorn; clothe; invest (furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors)

stave (furnish with staves)

spar (furnish with spars)

shaft (equip with a shaft)

wire (provide with electrical circuits)

accouter; accoutre (provide with military equipment)

armor; armour (equip with armor)

refit (fit out again)

re-equip; rejig (re-equip a factory or plant)

appoint (furnish)

kit; kit out; kit up (supply with a set of articles or tools)

rig; set; set up (equip with sails or masts)

instrument (equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling)

turn out (outfit or equip, as with accessories)

horseshoe (equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes)

stock (equip with a stock)

motorize (equip with a motor vehicle)

motorize (equip with a motor)

fin (equip (a car) with fins)

spur (equip with spurs)

collar (furnish with a collar)

fuse (equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse)

mechanise; mechanize; motorise; motorize (equip with armed and armored motor vehicles)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

equipage (equipment and supplies of a military force)

equipment (an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service)

equipping (the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with abilities or understanding

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She was never equipped to be a dancer

Hypernyms (to "equip" is one way to...):

enable (render capable or able for some task)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

A health care organization staffed, equipped, and licensed for performing chemotherapy, biological therapy and associated oncology care.

(Chemotherapy Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical facility equipped and staffed to provide prolonged care to patients, usually in cases when rehabilitation or total patient care are necessary.

(Medicare Certified Long Term Care Hospital, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

A room in a health care facility equipped for the performance of surgical operations and procedures.

(Operating Room, NCI Thesaurus)

They then equipped horses with both zebra-striped and unstriped cloths and again observed that the flies had trouble landing on the striped surfaces.

(Zebra stripes may 'dazzle' pathogen-packing horse flies, Wikinews)

If you are single, know that the little cherubs of love will be flying above, equipped with their tiny bows and arrows to help you find your one truelove.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

M3, aboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organization, was uniquely equipped to confirm the presence of solid ice on the Moon.

(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)

On the second day Iron Hans equipped him as a white knight, and gave him a white horse.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

These services use specially trained people and specially equipped facilities.

(Emergency Medical Services, NIH)

I really am a most troublesome companion to you both, but I hope I am not often so ill-equipped.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

For if they did not, our little expedition could not start, either so promptly or so well equipped, as it will within another hour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)