equip
/ɪˈkwɪp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.50 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I'm sorry, but I don't feel equipped to answer that kinda question yet."
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.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: équiper, esquiper, skipa, *skipōną