Synonyms of the word

berth

• n. A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
• n. Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.).
• n. A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
• n. (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
• n. A job or position, especially on a ship.
• n. (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
• n. (sports) position on the field of play.
• v. (transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth.
• v. (transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to.

anchorage

• n. (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine,…
• n. (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
• n. That into which something is anchored or fastened.
• n. (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
• n. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
• n. The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
• n. (figuratively) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

bed

• n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
• n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
• n. (heading) A layer or surface.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

billet

• n. A short informal letter.
• n. A written order to quarter soldiers.
• n. A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
• n. An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
• n. (figuratively) Berth; position.
• v. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
• v. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
• v. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
• n. (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
• n. A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
• n. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
• n. (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
• n. A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

dock

• n. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially…
• n. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
• n. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
• n. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
• n. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
• n. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
• v. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
• v. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
• v. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
• n. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
• n. The body of water between two piers.
• n. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
• n. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
• n. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop…
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications,…
• n. An act of docking; joining two things together.
• v. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
• v. To join two moving items.
• v. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where…
• n. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
• v. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in…

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

moor

• n. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy,…
• n. a game preserve consisting of moorland.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by…
• v. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

moorage

• n. The act of mooring.
• n. A place where a ship or an aircraft may be moored.
• n. The fee for mooring.

mooring

• v. present participle of moor.
• n. A place to moor a vessel.
• n. The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
• n. (figuratively) Something to which one adheres to, or the means that help one maintain a stable position…

occupation

• n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
• n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
• n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

office

• n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly.
• n. A position of responsibility.
• n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
• n. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
• n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral…
• n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
• n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
• n. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
• n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
• n. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
• n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly.
• n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
• n. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly.
• n. (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen,…
• n. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown…
• n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
• n. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
• n. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
• n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and…
• v. To provide (someone) with an office.
• v. (intransitive) To have an office.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

post

• n. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post.
• n. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
• n. A pole in a battery.
• n. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
• n. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
• n. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
• n. (sports) A goalpost.
• n. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers;…
• v. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
• v. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
• v. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
• v. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
• v. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).
• n. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility…
• n. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of…
• n. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such…
• n. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
• n. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
• n. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person…
• n. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum.
• n. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
• n. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line…
• n. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
• n. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
• v. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
• v. To travel quickly; to hurry.
• v. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
• v. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially…
• v. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
• adv. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly.
• adv. Sent via the postal service.
• n. An assigned station; a guard post.
• n. An appointed position in an organization, job.
• v. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
• v. To assign to a station; to set; to place.
• prep. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
• n. (film, informal) Post-production.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

situation

• n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
• n. The place in which something is situated; a location.
• n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
• n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
• n. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
• n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

slip

• n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
• n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
• n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
• n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
• n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
• n. A long, thin piece of something.
• n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
• n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
• v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
• v. (intransitive) To err.
• v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
• v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
• v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
• v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
• v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
• v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
• v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
• v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
• n. An act or instance of slipping.
• n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
• n. A slipdress.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
• n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
• n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
• n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
• n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
• n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
• n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
• n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
• n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
• n. An outside covering or case.
• n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
• n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
• n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
• n. A particular quantity of yarn.
• n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
• n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
• n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
• n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
• n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
• n. A fish, the sole.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

wharf

• n. A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
• n. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.