{
  "id": "provide.supply",
  "term": "provide",
  "sense": "supply",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "provide",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to give something to someone so that they have it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "give.transfer",
      "receive.communication",
      "someone.person"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a giver transfers something to a person, and that person receives it, the act of providing is complete and the recipient now has the thing.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recipient becomes possessor",
      "provision completes supply",
      "intentional transfer for possession"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station provides continuous 28V DC power via solar arrays to life support systems.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 CARES Act provided $1,200 stimulus payments to most U.S. taxpayers by direct deposit.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon Web Services provides scalable cloud storage to Netflix under a long-term contract.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "give.transfer",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "receive.communication",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bed.furniture",
    "enables.facilitation",
    "facilities.place",
    "inn.lodging",
    "insurance.financial",
    "login.digital",
    "server.digital",
    "sun.celestial",
    "tipping-point.irreversible"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "provide",
    "provided",
    "provides",
    "providing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'someone.person' to components as it is essential to the definition but was missing in the declared components. Definition remains unchanged as it is correct and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-provide.supply"
}