support
Meanings
verb
- To help keep from falling.
- To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid
- To provide sustenance or maintenance for; to sustain in integrity or livelihood.
- To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
- To provide evidence for; to lend credibility to.
- To serve, as in a customer-oriented position; to give support to.
- To assist or be involved with, but not be responsible for.
- To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- To be designed to provide capacity for; to work or be compatible with (a part, accessory, file type, program, algorithm, etc.).
- To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; tolerate.
- To play a lesser part in the same production with (a star performer).
noun
- Something which supports.
- Financial or other help.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
- A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM
- Evidence.
- Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- An accompaniment in music.
- Clipping of support position.
- Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
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Etymology
From Middle English supporten, from Old French supporter, from Latin supportō.
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