Inquiries are notations on your credit report that indicate when someone has checked your credit file. Only the âhardâ inquiries associated with an application for a new financial obligation, such as a loan or credit card, impact your credit score. A single inquiry typically costs very few points to the score. The Bankrate feature, âHow credit inquiries affect credit scoreâ goes into more detail on the subject.
Supplement. A supplement is a publication that has a role secondary to that of another preceding or concurrent publication. A follow-on publication complements its predecessor, either by bringing it up-to-date, or by otherwise enhancing the predecessor's coverage of a particular topic or subject matter, as in the Tosefta.
A dietary supplement is a product intended for ingestion that contains a dietary ingredient intended to add further nutritional value to (supplement) the diet.A dietary ingredient may be one, or any combination, of the following substances: 1  a vitamin. 2  a mineral. 3  an herb or other botanical.4  an amino acid. 5  a dietary substance for use by people to supplement the diet by increasing the total dietary intake.ietary supplements may be found in many forms such as tablets, capsules, softgels, gelcaps, liquids, or powders. Some dietary supplements can help ensure that you get an adequate dietary intake of essential nutrients; others may help you reduce your risk of disease.