support
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
support/səˈpɔːt/
▶verb
- 1 bear all or part of the weight of.
- 2 give assistance, encouragement, or approval to.
■ be actively interested in (a particular sports team).
■ (as adj. supporting) (of an actor or a role) of secondary importance to the leading roles in a play or film.
■ (of a pop or rock group or performer) function as a secondary act to (another) at a concert.
- 3 provide with a home and the necessities of life.
■ be capable of sustaining.
- 4 corroborate.
- 5 endure; tolerate.
- 1 a person or thing that supports.
■ the action of supporting or the state of being supported.
■ corroborative evidence.
- 2 assistance, encouragement, or approval.
– derivatives
supportability noun,
supportable adjective.
supportability noun,
supportable adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. supporter, from L. supportare, from sub- ‘from below’ + portare ‘carry’.
'support' also found in these Oxford entries:
advocate
- aegis
- affiliation order
- aftercare
- aid
- alienate
- ammunition
- ancillary
- ancon
- andiron
- anyway
- argue
- argument
- argumentation
- atlas
- auspice
- auxiliary
- aver
- back
- backboard
- backbone
- backing
- backrest
- backstop
- backup
- bacon
- badge
- bankroll
- barrack
- barre
- basis
- beam
- bear
- behind
- belt
- benefice
- bilge keel
- bipod
- Black Power
- blessing
- bolster
- bookend
- bookrest
- bra
- bracket
- breadwinner
- breeches buoy
- brief
- buttress
- cage
