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sup·ple·ment

 (sŭp′lə-mənt)
n.
1. Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole.
2. A section added to a book or document to give further information or to correct errors.
3. A separate section devoted to a special subject inserted into a periodical, such as a newspaper.
tr.v. (-mĕnt′) sup·ple·ment·ed, sup·ple·ment·ing, sup·ple·ments
To provide or form a supplement to.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin supplēmentum, from supplēre, to complete; see supply.]

sup′ple·men·tar′i·ty (-târ′ĭ-tē) n.
sup′ple·men′ta·ry (-mĕn′tə-rē, -trē), sup′ple·men′tal (-mĕn′tl) adj.
sup′ple·men·ta′tion (-mĕn-tā′shən) n.
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supplementary

(ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntərɪ; -trɪ)
adj
forming or acting as a supplement. Also (chiefly US): supplemental
n, pl -ries
a person or thing that is a supplement
ˌsuppleˈmentarily, ˌsuppleˈmentally adv
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sup•ple•men•ta•ry

(ˌsʌp ləˈmɛn tə ri)

adj., n., pl. -ries. adj.
1. Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
n.
2. a person or thing that is supplementary.
[1660–70]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.supplementary - functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"
secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
2.supplementary - added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes"
additive - characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"
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supplementary

adjective additional, extra, complementary, accompanying, secondary, auxiliary, add-on, supplemental, ancillary the question of whether or not we need to take supplementary vitamins
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supplementary

adjective
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Translations
تَكْميلي، إضافي
doplňkový
viîbótar-

supplementary

[ˌsʌplɪˈmentərɪ] ADJsuplementario
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supplementary

[ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntəri] adj
[dose] → complémentaire; [vitamins] → en complément, complémentaire
[funds, insurance, information, income] → complémentairesupplementary benefit n (British)allocation f supplémentaire d'aide sociale
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supplementary

adjzusätzlich, ergänzend; (Med) vitaminsergänzend; to be supplementary to somethingetw ergänzen; supplementary foodZusatznahrung f; supplementary volumeErgänzungsband m

supplementary

:
supplementary angle
nSupplement- or Ergänzungswinkel m
supplementary benefit
n (Brit) → ˜ Sozialhilfe f; to be on supplementary˜ Sozialhilfe beziehen
supplementary budget
n (Pol) → Nachtragshaushalt m
supplementary question
n (Parl) → Zusatzfrage f
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supplementary

[ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntrɪ] adjsupplementare
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supplement

(ˈsapləmənt) noun
an addition made to supply something lacking, or to correct errors etc. A supplement to the dictionary is to be published next year.
(-ment) verb
to make, or be, an addition to. He does an evening job to supplement his wages.
ˌsuppleˈmentary (-ˈmen-) adjective
added to supply what is lacking; additional.
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Soon after my return to my home in West Virginia, where I had planned to continue teaching, I was again surprised to receive a letter from General Armstrong, asking me to return to Hampton partly as a teacher and partly to pursue some supplementary studies.
A supplementary clause was tacked to the sentence, to the effect that "the aforesaid Cornelius van Baerle should be led from the prison of the Buytenhof to the scaffold in the yard of the same name, where the public executioner would cut off his head."
Therefore it was finally determined that matters should be so arranged, and Newman, after listening to many supplementary cautions and entreaties, took his leave of Miss La Creevy and trudged back to Golden Square; ruminating as he went upon a vast number of possibilities and impossibilities which crowded upon his brain, and arose out of the conversation that had just terminated.
He got up and demanded from Michel a supplementary repast.
In conformity with the Act of Congress of the United States entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times herein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled, "an Act, supplementary to an Act, for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times herein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York
Now, I have supplementary reservoirs capable of holding a hundred tons.
Shortly a supplementary program was issued which set forth that the Plymouth Collection of Hymns would be used on board the ship.
Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be.
But supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them, capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale, as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too, the otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated out of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its envelop; considering the unique interior of his head; it has hypothetically occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and unsuspected connexion with the outer air, so as to be susceptible to atmospheric distension and contraction.
His consultation fee is a guinea; and he gives a signed estimate beforehand for any supplementary expenses that may follow.
The guard soon replaced his blunderbuss in his arm-chest, and, having looked to the rest of its contents, and having looked to the supplementary pistols that he wore in his belt, looked to a smaller chest beneath his seat, in which there were a few smith's tools, a couple of torches, and a tinder-box.
and so forth), she bade her farewell; and after calling her back to give her more supplementary messages for Edward, than anybody with tenfold the gravity of Dolly Varden could be reasonably expected to remember, at length dismissed her.

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