Crossword clues for provided
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provide \Pro*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provided; p. pr. & vb. n. Providing.] [L. providere, provisum; pro before + videre to see. See Vision, and cf. Prudent, Purvey.]
To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. ``Provide us all things necessary.''
--Shak.-
To supply; to afford; to contribute.
Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods provide.
--Milton. To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with. ``And yet provided him of but one.''
--Jer. Taylor. ``Rome . . . was well provided with corn.''
--Arbuthnot.To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
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To foresee.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.]
--B. Jonson. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
--Prescott.
Provided \Pro*vid"ed\, conj. On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.
Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost
indifferent to their truth.
--G. H. Lewes.
Note: This word is strictly a participle, and the word being is understood, the participle provided agreeing with the whole sentence absolute, and being equivalent to this condition being previously stipulated or established.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"with condition that," early 15c., conjunction use of past participle of provide. As an adjective, "prepared, ready," 1570s; "furnished" 1878.
Wiktionary
conj. Only if (the stipulation that follows is true). vb. (en-past of: provide)
WordNet
Usage examples of "provided".
A partitioned room will accommodate either a summer or a winter dairy, if not otherwise provided, and a multitude of conveniences may be made of it in all well arranged farmeries.
Guard found their accommodation in a disused drying shed, where a fireplace provided a welcome warmth.
Other things, which pertain to the understanding and hence to the thinking, called matters of faith, are provided everyone in accord with his life, for they are accessory to life and if they have been given precedence, do not become living until they are subsidiary.
The question presented was whether a judgment rendered by a New York court under a statute which provided that, when joint debtors were sued and one of them was brought into court on a process, a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would entitle him to execute against all, and so must be accorded full faith and credit in Louisiana when offered as the basis of an action in debt against a resident of that State who had not been served by process in the New York action.
Worse, traditional accounting provided benefits to companies that sold winning positions while holding on to losers.
Under the accounting rules, that fee could only be reported by Enron after it provided the services.
British accredited representative, expressly provided for the unfettered freedom of conscience.
After two days of riding the wall, and time spent in the evening studying the ward-wall patrol manual that Maran had provided, his eyes tend to blur whenever he looks toward the chaos and whitened granite that prisons the Accursed Forest.
To control this disagreeable symptom, the candidates for both species of afflatus used to come to their meetings provided with napkins and rollers with which to bind their middles, and prevent the supervening inflation.
Before a knight could indulge in mortal affray he was obliged to obtain the consent of his sovereign, provided that peace ruled between his country and that of his antagonist, as was the case between Spain and Burgundy.
Rejecting with disdain the delicacies provided for his table, he satisfied his appetite with the coarse and common fare which was allotted to the meanest soldiers.
She reached into her muff and withdrew the banknote that Ambrose had provided for just this purpose.
But the image thus provided with an exterior analogon remains an image.
Miss Schwartz was flicking through the pages of colored graphs Ruth had thoughtfully provided as appendices to her paper.
Court sustained the State in applying to motor-driven tugs operating in navigable waters of the United States legislation which provided for the inspection and regulation of every vessel operated by machinery if the same was not subject to inspection under the laws of the United States.