SUPPLYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supplying mean? 

• SUPPLYING (noun)
  The noun SUPPLYING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of supplying or providing something

  Familiarity information: SUPPLYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPLYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of supplying or providing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

provision; supply; supplying

Hypernyms ("supplying" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "supplying"):

irrigation (supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc)

alimentation; feeding (the act of supplying food and nourishment)

fueling; refueling (the activity of supplying or taking on fuel)

care delivery; health care delivery; healthcare delivery (the provision of health care)

issuance; issue; issuing (the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity))

logistics (handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed)

purveyance (the act of supplying something)

stocking (the activity of supplying a stock of something)

subvention (the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort)

Derivation:

supply (give something useful or necessary to)

 Context examples 

An artery that runs along the inside of the foot supplying those muscles as well as the toes.

(Internal Plantar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

It is wonderful how many families I have been the means of supplying in that way.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Fermented wheat germ extract (FWGE) inhibits the activities of several enzymes involved in de novo nucleic acid synthesis and in supplying the dNTP pool required for DNA replication.

(Fermented Wheat Germ Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration of a drug within the coronary arteries supplying blood to the tissues of the heart.

(Intracoronary Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Any artery supplying the cerebral cortex.

(Cerebral Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder of the arteries supplying the upper and lower extremity and the visceral organs.

(Peripheral Arterial Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery supplying blood to the bottom of the feet and toes that arises from the posterior tibial artery.

(External Plantar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The authors had initially hypothesized the lava itself would cause an increase in microbes that rely on iron and phosphates by directly supplying them with those nutrients.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

Later on, when it no longer mattered, he learned that the associate editors and sub-editors augmented their salaries by supplying those paragraphs themselves.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)