Equip vs. Supply — What's the Difference?

To supply with necessities such as tools or provisions.

To make available for use; provide

To furnish (someone) with the qualities necessary for performance; prepare

To provide something necessary or desired to; furnish or equip

(transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging)

To have as a necessary or desirable feature

(transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.

To fill sufficiently; satisfy

(transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.

To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for.

To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.

The act of supplying

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; - said esp. of ships and of troops.

An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock

To dress up; to array; accouter.

Often supplies Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed.

Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose;

(Economics) The amount of a commodity available for meeting a demand or for purchase at a given price.

Provide with abilities or understanding;

(transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

(transitive) To furnish or equip with.

(transitive) To fill up, or keep full.

(transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.

(transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.

(intransitive) To act as a substitute.

(transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.

(uncountable) The act of supplying.

(countable) An amount of something supplied.

(in the plural) Provisions.

An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.

Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; - often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.

To serve instead of; to take the place of.

To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.

To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.

The act of supplying; supplial.

That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.

Auxiliary troops or reënforcements.

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; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

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.

Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.

An amount of something available for use

Offering goods and services for sale

The activity of supplying or providing something

Provide or furnish with;

Circulate or distribute or equip with;

Provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance;

State or say further;