supplement

[ˈsʌplɪmənt]

Definition:
1. A thing that is added to something else to improve or complete it.
2. Textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end.
3. A quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency).

Use 'supplement' in a sentence:

1. There will be a standardised "diploma supplement" giving details of what students have learnt.
2. Soldiers in both countries supplement their incomes with payoffs from drugs exporters.
3. Today, even writers who are fairly well-known often have to do other work to supplement their writing income.
4. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own field observations.
5. When prepared as a dietary supplement, retinol is stabilized as the ester derivatives retinyl acetate or retinyl palmitate.
6. Online education can supplement the traditional kind.
7. Consider supplements over and above this healthy diet.
8. Single people are treated as an aberration and made to pay a supplement.
9. If you are travelling alone, the single room supplement is $25 a night.
10. If we've redeemed this dangerous supplement for man, what about the fowl of the air and the beasts of the field?
11. I suggest supplementing your diet with vitamins E and A.
12. Which vitamin supplements are good value?
13. She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
14. Here are the Sunday supplements.
15. If you are considering a supplement, read the list of ingredients, she says, although this is not always reliable.
16. Living costs and books I paid for with money earned during high school, supplemented by a small college fund my deceased grandfather left for me and a modest savings account my parents created when I was born.
17. A supplement, he points out, is something that either completes something that isn't complete or adds to something that already is complete.
18. The hand-out is a supplement to the official newspaper.
19. Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.
20. Health food refers to food products which claim to have specific health functions or supplement one's vitamins or minerals.
21. I made a few changes in this article. I also supplemented it with one short paragraph.
22. As it turned out I really enjoyed the field work, it was a nice supplement to just sitting and listening to lectures.
23. The key is to take a supplement of the two main probiotics we need for the intestine, lacto-bacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium bifidum.
24. Persuasion is held essential with punishment as a supplement.
25. It needs to supplement the personality factor to confirm the ordinary recidivism.
26. Their methods included boycotts and court action, supplemented by'sit-ins".
27. Supplement absorption by the body is not temporal-dependent, but naturopath Pam Stone notes that the extra boost at breakfast helps us get energised for the day ahead.
28. Treatment is supplemented with a course of antibiotics to kill the bacterium.
29. If you are considering a supplement, read the list of ingredients, she says, although this is not always foolproof.
30. He supplements his regular meals by eating between meals.
31. Chromium supplements were used successfully in the treatment of diabetes ( see Chapter 4)
32. It was first held as a supplement to the Edinburgh International Festival.Then it developed very well.
33. If you are travelling alone, the single room supplement is £ 11 a night.
34. For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a column called "Ask Marilyn".
35. If not, take a supplement.
36. As mentioned earlier, the University supplements this information with an interview.
37. This full-colour supplement includes full race details, plus a comprehensive run-down on all the British hopefuls.
38. I took regular supplements and exercised every day.
39. I had been so enthralled by reading the serial stories in the magazine supplement.
40. Typically, if rains are delayed, people may clear land to plant more rice to supplement their harvests.
41. Business sponsorship must be a supplement to, not a substitute for, public funding.
42. In order for it to play a psychologically healthy role in your social life, social media should supplement an already healthy social network.
43. He supplemented his income with occasional comedy gigs.
44. Feelings of hopelessness among medieval workers trapped in the poverty cycle gradually lessened as it became possible for women's labor to supplement a family's money income by more than pennies.
45. She also writes a regular column for the Times Educational Supplement.
46. You can avoid the single supplement by agreeing to share a twin room.
47. As with any vitamin or supplement, please consult your doctor before taking.
48. The protein supplement business is found to be thriving.
49. There is a £ 10 supplement for a single room.
50. Safety deposit boxes are available at a supplement.
51. They sell vitamin supplements at the pharmacist's.
52. Industrial sponsorship is a supplement to government funding.
53. He supplements his income by giving private lessons.
54. Some people may be entitled to a housing benefit supplement.
55. However, the supplement will not raise any worker's income above what government assistance would provide if he or she were not gainfully employed.
56. Healthy people do not need vitamin supplements.