| supplier | | |
| n. (person) | 1. provider, supplier | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity. |
| ~ black marketeer | someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities. |
| ~ bourgeois, businessperson | a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. |
| ~ caterer | someone who provides food and service (as for a party). |
| ~ connection | a supplier (especially of narcotics). |
| ~ dispenser | a person who dispenses. |
| ~ distributer, distributor | someone who markets merchandise. |
| ~ purveyor | someone who supplies provisions (especially food). |
| ~ recruiter | someone who supplies members or employees. |
| ~ stockist | one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods. |
| ~ provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler | a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army. |
| ingredient | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. ingredient | a component of a mixture or compound. |
| ~ admixture, intermixture | an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base.; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand" |
| ~ base | the principal ingredient of a mixture.; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base" |
| ~ constituent, element, component | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system.; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient | an abstract part of something.; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech" |
| ~ be-all and end-all, be all and end all | the essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim.; "profit is the be-all and end-all of business" |
| ~ plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story. |
| ~ point | a geometric element that has position but no extension.; "a point is defined by its coordinates" |
| ~ division, section, part | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" |
| n. (food) | 3. fixings, ingredient | food that is a component of a mixture in cooking.; "the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad" |
| ~ dish | a particular item of prepared food.; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" |
| ~ food product, foodstuff | a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food. |
| ~ flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning, seasoner | something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts. |
| ~ tomato paste | thick concentrated tomato puree. |
| ~ egg white, ovalbumin, albumen, white | the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water.; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" |
| ~ egg yolk, yolk | the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen. |
| ~ malted milk | powder made of dried milk and malted cereals. |
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