Equip

Definition: Equip

Equip

Verb

1. Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities".

2. Provide with abilities or understanding; "She was never equipped to be a dancer".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "equip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Equip \E*quip"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Equipped; present participle verb or noun Equipping.]. (references)

EQUIP

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Equip

Clothing

Vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Crosswords: Equip

References

• Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equip. AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• All About Cruising: Prepare Yourself - Equip Your Boat - Plan Your Escape - Live Your Dream (reference)

• Cross Training Vol. 7 Juniors: Growing Pains-Overcome Painful Slams to Their Self Concepts. Equip to Hadle Gossip, Rejection, Negative Self Image, Gu (reference)

• SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN OILFIELD EQUIP. AG: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Stapleton's Powerboat Bible: How to Buy, Equip, and Organize a Boat for Coastal and Bluewater Cruising (reference)

• SWAT Battle Tactics : How To Organize, Train, And Equip A SWAT Team For Law Enforcement Or Self-Defense (reference)

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Periodicals

• Equip For Ministry (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• How to Equip a Trailer-Sailer (reference)

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High Tech

• Adtran T1 Csu Ace with Power Supply I-Facing Equip To A T1 Line. Tp To (reference)

• Adtran T1 Esf Csu Ace with Power I-Facing Cpe Equip To Esf T1 Line (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

NRCS DC Bobbi McDermott and technician Neal Hoy reviewing EQUIP contract and conservation plan wih cooperators in Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

NRCS technician reviewing EQUIP contract and conservation plan wih cooperator in Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Headgate and concrete lateral installed under a NRCS EQUIP contract. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Neal Hoy of the NRCS reviews laser leveling project with local cooperators as part of their EQUIP contract. Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Join a sheep club Twenty sheep to equip and clothe each soldier / / HS. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

In addition, the RTN has a long-term plan to equip all of its battleships with ECM systems. (references)

The public sector is expected to receive greater funding to equip existing facilities with mostly imported diagnostic, laboratory and other hospital equipment. (references)

In the past two years, MOET allocated each of the leading university IT departments only around $100,000 per annum to equip classrooms and pay for training and teachers’ salaries. (references)

Children

Ghana

In 2000 the Eastern regional branch of the Ghana Hairdressers and Beauticians Association announced that it would offer free apprenticeships to 150 street girls in the Eastern Region to equip them with marketable skills. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

B. Sector Name: Electric Machinery Etc; Sound Equip; TV Equip; including power generation equipment. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The above market estimate does not include Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative to equip 3000 schools with computers, also known as the Watani Project. (references)

Human Rights

Angola

The Government's failure to pay, feed, and equip many of its army and police personnel resulted in frequent extortion and theft of civilian property by security personnel. (references)

Turkey

In February a former Batman provincial governor admitted that during his 1993 to 1997 term, his office acquired weapons worth $1.1 million (1.5 trillion TL) to equip extraordinary units fighting the PKK. He stated that most were given to the Jandarma and some to the police; some allegedly were given to village guards as well, and may have been used to commit human rights abuses. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "equip": equip oneself ♦ equip smb. with smth. ♦ equip with ♦ equip with schools. Additional references.

Ending with "equip": NOT-EQUIP, re-equip.

Albanian

siguroj me, pajis (accoutre, arm oneself, endow, endue, fit, fit out, fit up, fix up, furnish, habilitate, indue, outfit, rig out, set, store, supply), instruktoj (coach, instruct), furnizoj (deliver, equip with, feed, fit out, furnish, lay on, outfit, provide with, purvey, supply, victual). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسا (array, attire, cake, clothe, coat, cover, drape, dress, encase, endue, face, fur, garb, garment, gird, glaze, invest, overlay, panel, plate, rig out, robe, sheathe, spread, suit, turn out), ‏زود (accommodate, assort, button, cap, chock, cover, eke out, fit, fit out, furnish, gloss, irrigate, lend, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, serve, set up, store, supply, tool up), ‏جهز (accommodate, activate, appoint, device, equip with, fit, fit out, furnish, gear, get ready, outfit, pack up, prepare, provide, set off, set smb. up in smth., stand by, think out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снабдявам с (kit, serve with), въоръжавам (arm), оборудвам (furnish, stock), обзавеждам (furnish, outfit, provide), екипирам (accouter, accoutre, fit out, kit, outfit, provide, rig out), подготвям (fit, get up, make ready, precede, prelude, prepare, string up, tee up, train, tutor, work up). (various references)

Chinese 

装备 (Equipped, Equipping, furnish, furnished, Furnishing, materiel, outfitted, outfitting). (various references)

Czech

zařídit (arrange, fit out, fix, fix up, furnish, get up, manage, organize, see to, settle, wangle), vyzbrojit (arm, commission, harness), vystrojit (accoutre, perk, rig out, trick out, trick up), vybavit (accommodate, endow, fit, fit out, fit up, furnish, habilitate, refit). (various references)

Dutch

uitvoeren (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, export, introduce, keep, make, observe, perform, play, present, produce), uitrusten (equipment, fitting out), toerusten. (various references)

Esperanto

ekipi. (various references)

Faeroese

gera út (accommodate, provide, supply), búgva út (accommodate, provide, supply). (various references)

Farsi 

مسلح کردن (Force, Weapon), مجهزکردن (Dight, Furnish, Imp, Prepare), سازمندکردن (Arrange), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim). (various references)

Finnish

varustaa (fit, fortify, furnish, provide, supply). (various references)

French

équiper. (various references)

German

ausrüsten (accoutre, arm, fit out, fit up, furnish, kit out, kit up, power, prepare, rig, to accoutre, to equip, to furnish, tool up), ausstatten (accommodate, configurate, endow, fit, fit up, furnish, kit out, kit up, produce, provide, stock, supply, to configurate, to equip, to fit out, to furnish, vest). (various references)

Greek 

εξοπλίζω (equip with, rig), εφοδιάζω (accouter, gear, outfit, provide, provision, purvey, rig, stock, store, supply, supply with, victual). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחמש (arm, fit out, fit up), לצי�" (arm, fit out, fit up, furnish, outfit, provide, set up, stock, supply), לספק ציו�", ל� פק (issue equipment). (various references)

Hungarian

felszerel (arm, fit out, fit up, gang, instal, install, Mount, outfit, rig up, set up, stock up, to accoutre, to emboss, to equip, to fit out, to fit up, to furnish, to gang, to install, to issue, to line up, to refit, to remount, to rig out, to rig up, to stock, to store, to tool up), felállít (activate, erect, post, raise, rig up, stick up, to cock, to elevate, to erect, to line up, to post, to rear, to rig up, to set up, to stick up, to upend), berendez (furnish, instal, install, to equip, to furnish, to refit, to upholster, upholster). (various references)

Indonesian

menyediakan (funds), make available, prepare, provide, set aside (foods), mengalati, mempersediakan (funds), set aside (foods, supply), melengkapi (adjust, complementary, endue, furnish). (various references)

Italian

equipaggiare (accouter, accoutre, equip oneself, fit out, kit oneself out, man), corredare (enclose, fit out, furnish, inclose, supply). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

備える (to equip, to furnish, to have ready, to install, to provide for). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すえつける (to equip, to install, to mount), そなえつける (to equip, to furnish, to install, to provide), そなえる (to be armed with, to be endowed with, to be furnished with, to dedicate, to equip, to furnish, to have, to have ready, to install, to offer, to possess, to prepare for, to provide for, to sacrifice). (various references)

Korean 

갖�"십시�". (various references)

Manx

greighey (furnish, furnishing, rig), armal (arm, armour, commission). (various references)

Norwegian

utruste. (various references)

Pig Latin

equipay.(various references)

Portuguese

equipe (detachment, team), equipar (accoutre, caparison, clothe, furnish, gear, man, outfit, prepare, rig, set out, store, tool up). (various references)

Romanian

echipa (accoutre, appoint, commission, fit, man, outfit, prepare, rig, set out), utila cu, prevedea cu, amenaja (appropriate, arrange, dispose, fit, grade), înzestra cu (endue), îmbrãca (accoutre, array, attire, do on, draw on, dress, enclothe, endue, garb, habit, protect, put on, vest, wear, wore). (various references)

Russian 

снабжать (accommodate, fit, fit out, fit up, furnish, provide, serve with, store, supply). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snabdeti (cater, feed, furnish, gird, heel, provide, purvey, ration, stock, stock up, supply), opremiti (accoutre, fit out, fit up, outfit, rig, rig out, rig up, turn out). (various references)

Spanish

equipar (accouter, appoint, arm, camouflage, fit out, fit up, furnish, kit out, kit up, outfit, rig out, set up). (various references)

Swedish

utrusta (commission, endue, fit, fit out, fit up with, furnish, invest, kit out, kit up, munition, outfit, provide, store up), ekipera (fit out, fit up with). (various references)

Thai

จั�"หามาให้ (obtain for). (various references)

Turkish

kuşatmak (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, envelop, environ, gird, girdle, Girt, girth, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, hem in, inclose, invest, lay siege to, ring, shut in, surround, zone), hazırlamak (arrange, coach, concoct, engross, formulate, groom, knock up, lay, lay out, make ready, prepare, set, set by, stage, work up), giydirmek (array, attire, clothe, doll out, doll up, Don, dress, enrobe, garb, invest, revet, rig out, robe, turn out, vesture), donatmak (arm, attire, bedeck, bedight, catch up, damask, deck out, decorate, furnish, gird, invest, ornament, outfit, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out). (various references)

Turkmen 

enjamlaюdyrmak (outfit). (various references)

Ukrainian

обладнувати (apparel, decorate), опоряджати (decorate, trick). (various references)

accincta, accinctaeque, accincti, accinctisque, accinctos, accinctum, accinctus, accinctusque, accingatur, accinge, accingens, accingent, accingentes, accingentur, accingere, accingetur, accingimini, accingit, accingite, accinxerunt, accinxi, accinxisti, accinxit, adornare, adornatus, adparatu, adparatum, adparatus, apparere, apparet, arma, armabit, armabitur, armabuntur, armamini, armatam, armate, armati, armatis, armatos, armatura, armaturam, armatus, armavit, armo, orna, ornabant, ornabatur, ornaberis, ornabit, ornanda, ornandam, ornandum, ornant, ornantes, ornare, ornaret, ornasti, ornat, ornata, ornatam, ornati, ornatis, ornato, ornatu, ornatum, ornaturum, ornatus, ornaverunt, ornavi, ornavit, ornent, suborno. (various references)

gescyrpan. (various references)

esquiper. (various references)

equiper. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "equip": equipage, equipages, equipment, equipments, equipoise, equipoised, equipoises, equipoising, equipollence, equipollences, equipollent, equipollently, equipollents, equiponderant, equipotential, equipped, equipper, equippers, equipping, equiprobable, equips. (additional references)

Words ending with "equip": reequip. (additional references)

Words containing "equip": overequipped, reequipment, reequipments, reequipped, reequipping, reequips, unequipped. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Equip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aquib, Aquil, aquip, Bequai, Bequia, Dequi, eci, ecip, egap, egip, ejup, eqo, equ, Equa, equad, equag, equah, equai, equan, equar, equay, eques, equia, equib, equie, equil, equim, equin, equipd, Equipe, Equipo, equipp, equir, equis, equit, eui, hequi, Nequam, oquip, requi, requip, squip. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pique.

-1 letter: quip.

-2 letters: pie, piu.

-3 letters: pe, pi, up.

+1 letter: equips, piqued, piques, piquet.

+2 letters: perique, picquet, piquets, piroque, quipped, quipper, reequip.

+3 letters: applique, equipage, equipped, equipper, periques, physique, picquets, piquance, piroques, postique, pratique, quippers, quipster, reequips.

+4 letters: appliqued, appliques, equipages, equipment, equipoise, equippers, equipping, physiques, pipsqueak, piquances, postiques, pratiques, queenship, quickstep, quintuple, quipsters.

+5 letters: antiplaque, equipments, equipoised, equipoises, parqueting, pasquinade, perquisite, picaresque, pipsqueaks, piquancies, prequalify, prerequire, quadriceps, queenships, quicksteps, quintupled, quintuples, quintuplet, radiopaque, reequipped, semiopaque, unequipped.