support

Forms

1.To help keep from falling.
- Don’t move that beam! It supports the whole platform.
- He staggered away from the accident site, supported by one friend on each side.
- There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.
2.To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid
- I support France in the World Cup.
3.To provide sustenance or maintenance for; to sustain in integrity or livelihood.
- Mars does not currently support human habitation.
4.To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
- The government supports the arts in several ways.
- I said I shouldn’t support anything that deceives people.
- The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.

1.Financial or other help.
- The government provides support to the arts in several ways.
2.Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support?
3.in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
4.Something which supports.
- Don't move that beam! It's a support for the whole platform.

Very common· #486

From Middle English supporten

From Old French supporter

From Latin supportō.