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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supplement \Sup"ple*ment\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supplemented; p. pr. & vb. n. Supplementing.] To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Causes of one kind must be supplemented by bringing to
bear upon them a causation of another kind.
--I.
Taylor.
Supplement \Sup"ple*ment\, n. [F. suppl['e]ment, L. supplementum, fr. supplere to fill up. See Supply, v. t.]
That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply. [Obs.]
--Chapman.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.
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(Trig.) The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180[deg]; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
Syn: Appendix.
Usage: Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which is appended to something, but is not essential to its completeness; a supplement is that which supplements, or serves to complete or make perfect, that to which it is added.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin supplementum "that which fills up, that with which anything is made full or whole, something added to supply a deficiency," from supplere "to fill up" (see supply (v.)).
1829, from supplement (n.). Compare Spanish suplementar. Related: Supplemented; supplementing.
Wiktionary
n. Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency. vb. To provide or make a supplement to something.
WordNet
n. textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end [syn: addendum, postscript]
a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) [syn: supplementation]
a supplementary component that improves capability [syn: accessory, appurtenance, add-on]
v. add as a supplement to what seems insufficient; "supplement your diet"
serve as a supplement to; "Vitamins supplemented his meager diet"
add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language" [syn: append, add on, affix]
Wikipedia
A supplement is a publication that has a role secondary to that of another preceding or concurrent publication.
A follow-on publication complements its predecessor, either by bringing it up to date (e.g. the Index Catalogue), or by otherwise enhancing the predecessor's coverage of a particular topic or subject matter, as in the Tosefta. Supplements are particularly used in gaming hobbies.
A newspaper supplement, often a weekly section of its parent, usually has a tabloid or Sunday magazine format and covers wide-ranging and less time-critical subjects, as in The American Weekly, the 2004 version of Life, and Parade. Newspaper supplements became common in France and Germany in the mid to late 19th century—they were called feuilleton in French. In Chinese, they are called fukan.
Advertising supplements periodically accompany corresponding newspapers and are prepared by the paper's advertising staff instead of its editorial staff. It is common for them to cover topics such as real estate and automobiles on behalf of the paper's frequent advertisers.
Some supplements are spin-offs from a newspaper. They are sold separately and typically cover a specific topic, such as the Times Literary Supplement and the Times Educational Supplement
Supplements found on some DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs are more commonly known as special features, bonus features, or bonus material.
In education, supplemental materials are educational materials designed to accompany or expand on the information presented on course textbooks. These can include printed materials, CDs, websites, or other electronic materials.
Supplement may refer to:
- Dietary supplement
- Bodybuilding supplement
- Supplement, one of a pair of supplementary angles, considered relative to the other
- Supplement (publishing)
- A role-playing or tabletop game supplement, see expansion pack
- A music album by Ai Nonaka, see Supplement (album)
- Supplement, an alternate spelling of the word, used almost exclusively to describe farming products and additives.
- The Supplement, a 2002 Polish film
- In literary theory, an idea of Jacques Derrida from Of Grammatology
- Herbal supplement
Usage examples of "supplement".
Eldar, in the earlier parts, though for later times supplemented by anthropocentric histories and tales.
To this pleasurable feeling is easily added the effort, at favorable opportunity, to reproduce the product of the apperception, to supplement and deepen it, to unite it to other ideas, and so further to extend certain chains of thought.
Come during high season, though, and you can supplement your bubbly with a few appetizers and kick back on the garden-front patio.
By astute and systematic observation, supplemented by occasional bribery, the team would compile a financial and operating study, probing weaknesses and estimating potential, untapped strengths.
His field was ballistics and firearms identification, and while he might have supplemented his findings with those from other fields, he was not qualified in spectrography, which entails expertise in physics and chemistry.
The excretory work of these glands seems not to be so great as was formerly supposed, but they supplement in a practical way the work of the kidneys and, during diseases of these organs, show an increase in excretory function to a marked degree.
Over the past generation as geothermal steam and then hydropower supplemented coal, it had also become a major manufacturing center.
In so many ways, he reminded Lo Manto of the destitute street kids in Naples, kids who lived a hand-to-mouth existence, supplementing what they got from begging on corners with what they could steal from local grocers and merchants.
On the job, where hardcopy now-do-this instructions were of essence, boppers used zeroes-and-ones machine language supplemented by a high-speed metalanguage of glyphs and macros.
When he connected me to the modem, his goal was to supplement my technical knowledge of speech -- phonemes, morphemes, syntax, lexicon, prosody, discourse -- with a broad-based knowledge of semantics.
X rays, scans, shunts, sutures, intravenous feedings, parenteral nutritional supplements, respiratory therapy, and, finally, the autopsy.
Out of red blood, blood-vessels are formed, and from the incipient development of the heart follow faint lines of arteries, and the engineers of nutrition survey a circulatory system, perfecting the vascular connections by supplementing the arteries with a complete net-work of veins and capillaries.
Are you planning to supplement your wages at La Primavera by trying to arrest Lohaquin?
You will make a fine Prognosticator when you have been reprogrammed and had your memory capacity and reasoning circuitry supplemented.
In the off-season, she supplemented her income by renting out the tiny attic apartment.