equip
/ɪˈkwɪp/
Meaning
To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.
Equipment (carried by a game character).
To prepare (someone) with a skill.
To dress up; to array; to clothe.
To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
Equipment (carried by a game character).
To prepare (someone) with a skill.
To dress up; to array; to clothe.
To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
Examples
1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.
A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, is equipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.
Some of those neighbors will also have Meraki boxes that serve as repeaters, relaying the signal still farther to more neighbors. The company equips its boxes with software that maintains a “mesh network,” which dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or unplugged, and as environmental conditions that affect network performance fluctuate moment to moment.
More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.
The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.
Word Forms
equips
equipping
equipped
equipt
Etymology
From French équiper (“to supply, fit out”), originally said of a ship, Old French esquiper (“to embark”); of Germanic origin, most probably from Old Norse skipa (“to man (a ship)”), from Proto-Germanic *skipōną (“to ship, sail, embark”).
Compare with Middle High German schipfen, German schiffern, Icelandic skipa, Old English scipian. Doublet of ship.