Supply vs. Supplement — What's the Difference?

To make available for use; provide

Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole.

To provide something necessary or desired to; furnish or equip

A section added to a book or document to give further information or to correct errors.

To have as a necessary or desirable feature

A separate section devoted to a special subject inserted into a periodical, such as a newspaper.

To fill sufficiently; satisfy

See dietary supplement.

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

See supplementary angle.

The act of supplying

To provide or form a supplement to.

An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock

Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.

Often supplies Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed.

An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.

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

An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.

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

(geometry) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.

(transitive) To furnish or equip with.

A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.

(transitive) To fill up, or keep full.

A surcharge, additional cost, especially for food in a restaurant.

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

To provide or make a supplement to something.

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

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

(intransitive) To act as a substitute.

That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.

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

The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.

(uncountable) The act of supplying.

To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.

(countable) An amount of something supplied.

Textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end

(in the plural) Provisions.

A quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)

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

A supplementary component that improves capability

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

Add as a supplement to what seems insufficient;

Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

Serve as a supplement to;

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.

Add to the very end;

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;