The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supply \Sup*ply"\, a. Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
Supply system (Zo["o]l.), the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See Illust. of Spongi[ae].
Usage examples of "supply system".
When anyone complained to the Jevlenese catering staff about it, they were told that the supply system was messed up.
After years of perfecting a centralized supply system, Ingram directed area managers to start buying all available foods and other products from local sources.
Power, light, communication and translation facilities are available, but you are no longer connected to the main air supply system or to the automatic food distribution network, nor will you receive medical consumables of any kind.
By the spring, the knotted supply system had been disentangled, the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments revamped.
The Professor appeared to be trying to refine his hypothetical design for the missing power-supply system for the novel device.
They followed it between the last of the storage tanks and girderwork abutting a bulkhead to a series of bays containing power-distribution equipment and banks of enormous batteries -- a backup supply system for emergency power.
The red bar in each rectangle indicated an empty tank, and the percentage reading applied to the tank currently switched into the fuel supply system.
I'd appreciate it if you let people know who we are and ask them to give us full facilities, but we won't be a burden on your supply system.
Which left Bruce wondering how the Skidians had decided on the plan for the kennels and the continuous food supply system that would have been an integral feature of any canine conception.
He drew it, half-asleep, and later looked and found that his unconscious mind had designed a power-supply system which made Walden's look rather primitive.
I have an extensive food supply system, which can conjure up the delicacies of many races, including your own.
But I sized the carrying capacity to fit with a fifteen-gigawatt supply system, because that's what we'll get with an off-the-shelf powersat.
The removal of the camps from the frontier areas added more problems to the already overburdened Chinese supply system.