different between support vs arc

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p??t/, [s??p???t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??p??t/, [s??p???t], [s??p?o?t]
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Hyphenation: sup?port

Etymology 1

From Middle English supporten, from Old French supporter, from Latin support?. Displaced Old English underwreþian and Old English fultum.

Verb

support (third-person singular simple present supports, present participle supporting, simple past and past participle supported)

2. (transitive) To keep from falling.

3. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.

5. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.

6. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
7. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, The Freedom of the Will

     to urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy

8. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.

9. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.

10. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.

11. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.

    • This fierce demeanour and his insolence / The patience of a god could not support.

    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

      For a strong affection such moments are worth supporting, and they will end well; for your advocate is in your lover's heart and speaks her own language […]

12. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

Synonyms

• (to keep from falling): underprop, uphold, stut

Antonyms

• (to back a cause, party, etc.): oppose

Derived terms

• supportable
• supported
• supportive

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English support, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English underwreþung.

Noun

support (countable and uncountable, plural supports)

1. (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.

2. Financial or other help.
3. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.

4. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
5. (fuzzy set theory) 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).

6. Evidence.

7. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.

8. An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
9. An accompaniment in music.
10. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
11. (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• (mathematics): kernel

Hyponyms

• moral support
• (answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold): first-level support, second-level support, third-level support
• (military): combat support

Derived terms

• support act
• support group

Translations

French

Etymology

From the verb supporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.p??/

Noun

support m (plural supports)

1. support
2. base
3. (heraldry) supporter

Further reading

• “support” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English ark, borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arch and arco.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: äk, IPA^(key): /??k/
• (US) enPR: ärk, IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Homophone: ark

Noun

arc (plural arcs)

1. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
6. A story arc. [from 20th c.]
7. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
8. (graph theory) A directed edge.
9. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
10. (film) An arclight.

Synonyms

• (curve): curve, swoop
• (circular arc): circular arc, circle segment
• (directed edge): arrow, directed edge

Derived terms

• arcweld
• mercury arc rectifier

Translations

Verb

arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
   • 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)

     A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
2. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
3. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

Related terms

• arch

Further reading

• arc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arc in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• arc at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• CAR, CRA, Car, RAC, RCA, acr-, car, rac-

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan arc, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?k/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ark/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
3. (geometry) arc
4. (architecture) arch

Derived terms

• arc de Sant Martí
• arc de triomf
• arc iris
• arcada
• arcbotant
• arcar
• arquejar
• arquer

See also

• fletxa

Further reading

• “arc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “arc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?k/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. arc (curve)
3. (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
4. (architecture) arch

Derived terms

See also

• flèche f
• arche f

Anagrams

• car

Further reading

• “arc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (architecture) arch

Related terms

• arcâ

See also

• frece

Hungarian

Etymology

An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rt?s]
• Rhymes: -?rt?s

Noun

arc (plural arcok)

1. (anatomy) face

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• arc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• arc in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??k/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

1. piglet
2. diminutive animal or person

Alternative forms

• earc

Synonyms

• arcachán
• arcadán

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

1. (mathematics, geometry) arc

Derived terms

• arclampa (“arc-lamp”)

Etymology 3

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

1. Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "arc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 orc (‘young pig’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?k/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow
2. arch, arc

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)

1. bow (weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
2. (architecture) arch

Coordinate terms

• (bow): saete

Descendants

• ? Middle English: ark, arke
  • English: arc
• French: arc

Old High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ark/

Adjective

arc

1. Alternative form of arg

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o-.

Noun

arc n (plural arcuri)

1. bow (a weapon)
2. (architecture) arch

Declension

Noun

arc n (plural arce)

1. (geometry) arc

Declension

Derived terms

• arcad?
• arcan
• arcatur?
• arca?
• arcui
• arcuibil
• arcuire
• arcuit
• arcuitur?
• arcule?
• arcu?

Related terms

• arcar

See also

• s?geat?

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arxk/

Noun

arc f

1. Bee (apoidea).
2. Wasp (vespidae).
3. Impost, tax.
4. "Femen."(sic)

References