| supplant | 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. "Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend." (Bp. Fell) 3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. "You never will supplant the received ideas of God." (Landor) Synonym: To remove, displace, overpower, undermine, overthrow, supersede. Origin: F. Supplanter, L. Supplantare to trip up one's heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. Plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| supplantation | The act of supplanting or displacing. "Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness." (Cloeridge) Origin: Cf. F. Supplantation, L. Supplantatio hypocritical deceit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| supple-jack | <botany> A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. "He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . Yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke." (W. Irving) This name is given to various plants of similar habit in different British colonies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| supplement | Something that supplies a want or make an addition: something that completes, adds a finishing touch or brings closer to completion or a desired state. (18 Nov 1997) |
| supplemental air | The extra volume of air that can be expired with maximum effort beyond the level reached at the end of a normal, quiet expiration. Common abbreviation is erv. (12 Dec 1998) |
| supplemental groove | A curvilinear depression normally found on each side of a triangular ridge (crista triangularis). (05 Mar 2000) |
| supplemental lobe | In dental anatomy, an extra lobe; one that is not included in the typical formation of a tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supplemental ridge | A ridge on the surface of a tooth that is not normally present. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supplementary | Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. <physiology> Supplemental air, a bill filed in aid of an original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment. <mathematics> Supplementary chords, in an ellipse or hyperbola, any two chords drawn through the extremities of a diameter, and intersecting on the curve. Origin: Cf. F. Supplementaire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| supplementary motor area epilepsy | A localization-related epilepsy syndrome in which seizures originate from the supplementary motor area of the mesial frontal lobe. Typical seizure semiology includes sudden bilateral tonic movements, vocalization, and preservation of consciousness. Attacks are often nocturnal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supplementary motor cortex | A region from which, by electrical stimulation, the musculature of all bodily parts can be activated, as it also can by stimulation of the motor cortex of the precentral gyrus; the region corresponds approximately to the expansion of Brodmann's area 6 over the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere; this area has largely a bilateral representation and is concerned primarily with tonic and postural motor activities. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supply | 1. The act of supplying; supplial. 2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen." The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies. A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; especially, a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit. Stated supply "Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price." . Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve. <zoology> Supply system, the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |