Word Meanings - PROVISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Provider
  One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
• Providore
  One who makes provision; a purveyor.
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Preparation
  The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• Previous
  Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.
• Previously
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.

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