support
/sə'pɔ:t/
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Definition
Noun:
- Financial or material assistance: The provision of money, resources, or necessities to enable something to exist or function.
- A structure that bears weight: A device, object, or part that holds something up or provides a foundation.
- Encouragement or backing: Immaterial assistance such as approval, agreement, or loyalty given to a person, cause, or idea.
- The act of sustaining: The action of bearing the weight of something or providing strength.
- A musical accompaniment: A vocal or instrumental part that provides background for a main melody.
- Verification: Evidence or documentation that validates a claim or argument.
- Military reinforcement: An operation to strengthen a military force.
Verb:
- To bear the weight of; hold up: To serve as a foundation or structure that prevents something from falling.
- To provide assistance or backing: To give financial, material, moral, or psychological help.
- To endure or tolerate: To put up with something unpleasant.
- To substantiate or corroborate: To provide evidence or arguments that confirm the truth or validity of something.
- To be a regular customer or patron of: To frequent a business or service.
- To advocate for; defend: To speak or argue in favor of a person, idea, or action.
- To play a secondary role to: In performing arts, to act in a subordinate role that enhances another performer.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- The charity provides financial support to families in need.
- The bridge collapsed because its main support failed.
- The policy has widespread public support.
- She leaned on her friend for emotional support during the crisis.
Verb:
- These columns support the entire roof.
- He supports his children through college.
- I cannot support his rude behavior any longer.
- The data supports the scientist's hypothesis.
- We support our local bookstore by shopping there.
- She supported her colleague's proposal during the meeting.
- The veteran actor supported the young lead brilliantly.
Advanced Usage
- "in support of": For the purpose of helping, defending, or approving of something.
- He spoke in support of the new environmental regulations.
- "moral support": Encouragement and sympathy, rather than physical or financial help.
- My friends came to the competition just to give me moral support.
- "to lend support to": To add credibility or backing to an idea or argument.
- The recent discovery lends support to the theory.
Variants and Related Words
- Supporter (n): A person who approves of and encourages someone or something.
- He is a strong supporter of the arts.
- Supportive (adj): Providing encouragement or emotional help.
- She has a very supportive family.
- Supportable (adj): Able to be endured or tolerated.
- The pain was barely supportable.
- Unsupported (adj): Not supported; lacking proof or corroboration.
- His claims were unsupported by any evidence.
Synonyms
- Noun: Backing, aid, assistance, foundation, pillar, prop, sustenance.
- Verb: Sustain, uphold, back, endorse, finance, fund, bear, tolerate, corroborate.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Support with: To provide a specific type of help.
- Can you support your argument with more facts?
- Back up: To support someone's statement or claim; to provide assistance.
- Her theory is backed up by solid research. (Note: 'Back up' is a phrasal verb with a meaning similar to 'support'.)
Related Idioms
- To support a habit: To financially enable an expensive, often addictive, activity.
- He works two jobs to support his gambling habit.
- A tower of strength/support: Someone who provides very strong and reliable support, especially in difficult times.
- My sister was a tower of strength after the accident.
Noun
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
- the foundation provided support for the experiment
- any device that bears the weight of another thing
- there was no place to attach supports for a shelf
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
- he leaned against the wall for support
- supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
- the statue stood on a marble support
- the financial means whereby one lives
- each child was expected to pay for their keep
- he applied to the state for support
- he could no longer earn his own livelihood
- documentary validation
- his documentation of the results was excellent
- the strongest support for this view is the work of Jones
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- they called for artillery support
- something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
- the policy found little public support
- his faith was all the support he needed
- the team enjoyed the support of their fans
- aiding the cause or policy or interests of
- the president no longer has the support of his own party
- they developed a scheme of mutual support
- the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
- his support kept the family together
- they gave him emotional support during difficult times
Verb
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- I cannot bear his constant criticism
- The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
- he learned to tolerate the heat
- She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
- be a regular customer or client of
- We patronize this store
- Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could
- play a subordinate role to (another performer)
- Olivier supported Gielgud beautifully in the second act
- argue or speak in defense of
- She supported the motion to strike
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- The stories and claims were born out by the evidence
- adopt as a belief
- I subscribe to your view on abortion
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- his story confirmed my doubts
- The evidence supports the defendant
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- The beam holds up the roof
- He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam
- What's holding that mirror?
- be behind; approve of
- He plumped for the Labor Party
- I backed Kennedy in 1960
- support materially or financially
- he does not support his natural children
- The scholarship supported me when I was in college
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- She supported him during the illness
- Her children always backed her up