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equip

verb
/ɪˈkwɪp/

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.

  1. derived from *skipōną✻
  2. derived from skipa — “to man (a ship)”
  3. derived from esquiper
  4. derived from équiper

Definitions

  1. To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task

    To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).

    • 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.

  2. To dress up

    To dress up; to array; to clothe.

    • 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.

  3. To prepare (someone) with a skill.

    • I'm sorry, but I don't feel equipped to answer that kinda question yet.
    • it is no more than proper that you should equip us with a vessel in which to pursue the journey which you interrupted
    • Already in the primary school work is conducted for the purpose of equipping the pupils with those elements of general knowledge which are closely related to the military preparation of future warriors.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To equip oneself with (an item)

      To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.

      • Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, or equip your sword and attack it at close range.

    2. Equipment (carried by a game character).

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Derived

bind on equip, equipable, equipper, overequip, re-equip, reequip, underequip, unequip

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at equip. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at equip. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at equip

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA