Equip Meaning
/ɪˈkwɪp/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
verbTo dress up; to array; to clothe.
Sentence Examples
He wants to equip his son with a good education.
If you equip an item marked 'Cursed', you will gain the 'cursed' status effect.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The school will ____ each classroom with new computers and projectors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hikers need to ____ themselves with proper gear before climbing the mountain.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1916, “Indicator Tells Pursuing Police Speed of Automobile”, in Popular Science Monthly/Volume 88:
"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."
— 2007 February 4, Randall Stross, “Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers”, in The New York Times:
"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."
— 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph:
"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."
— 1711 July 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, July 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 129; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
"it is no more than proper that you should equip us with a vessel in which to pursue the journey which you interrupted"
— 1921, Rafael Sabatini, In Destiny's Clutch:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The school will ____ each classroom with new computers and projectors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The hikers need to ____ themselves with proper gear before climbing the mountain.