Associations to the word «Supplement»

Wiktionary

SUPPLEMENT, noun. Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.

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

SUPPLEMENT, noun. An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.

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

SUPPLEMENT, noun. (nutrition) (bodybuilding) A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.

SUPPLEMENT, verb. To provide or make a supplement to something.

Dictionary definition

SUPPLEMENT, noun. Textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end.

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

SUPPLEMENT, noun. A supplementary component that improves capability.

SUPPLEMENT, verb. Add as a supplement to what seems insufficient; "supplement your diet".

SUPPLEMENT, verb. Serve as a supplement to; "Vitamins supplemented his meager diet".

SUPPLEMENT, verb. Add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

William Butler Yeats

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