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EQUIP

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Irregular inflected forms: equipped    , equipping   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with abilities or understanding

Example:

She was never equipped to be a dancer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "equip" is one way to...):

enable (render capable or able for some task)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose

Example:

The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities

Synonyms:

equip; fit; fit out; outfit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "equip" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "equip"):

commission (put into commission; equip for service; of ships)

adorn; clothe; invest (furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors)

stave (furnish with staves)

spar (furnish with spars)

shaft (equip with a shaft)

wire (provide with electrical circuits)

accouter; accoutre (provide with military equipment)

armor; armour (equip with armor)

refit (fit out again)

re-equip; rejig (re-equip a factory or plant)

appoint (furnish)

kit; kit out; kit up (supply with a set of articles or tools)

muzzle (fit with a muzzle)

instrument (equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling)

turn out (outfit or equip, as with accessories)

horseshoe (equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes)

stock (equip with a stock)

motorize (equip with a motor vehicle)

motorize (equip with a motor)

fin (equip (a car) with fins)

spur (equip with spurs)

collar (furnish with a collar)

fuse (equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse)

mechanise; mechanize; motorise; motorize (equip with armed and armored motor vehicles)

rig; set; set up (equip with sails or masts)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

equipage (equipment and supplies of a military force)

equipment (an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service)

equipping (the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I was similarly equipped, and, following the stream, I made my way into the open air.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sore was his heart when he saw rare bowmen and war-hardened spearmen turned away from his gates, for the lack of the money which might equip and pay them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It could be equipped with LEDs or a type of nanogenerator that harnesses mechanical energy from the fluid flow to produce light and heat, which would reduce the overall cost.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He is better equipped for a rough expedition of this sort than one would imagine at first sight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nearing Earth's atmosphere seven years from now, a capsule containing the sample and equipped with a heat shield will detach from the main OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and enter Earth's atmosphere.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

BAT is a thermogenic organ equipped to dissipate energy in the form of heat through the so-called “uncoupling protein”.

(Increasing the level of physical activity is found not to improve the functioning of brown adipose tissue, University of Granada)

A mobile unit staffed and equipped to collect blood donations for a blood bank.

(Bloodmobile, NCI Thesaurus)

A facility equipped and competent to conduct scientific experiments, observations, tests, investigations, and/or to manufacture chemicals or medical products.

(Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)