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support
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)
- (transitive) To keep from falling.
- (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
- 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
- 1754, Jonathan Edwards, The Freedom of the Will
- (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- (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.
- (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- (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 […]
- 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)
- (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
- Financial or other help.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
- (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).
- Evidence.
- (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- An accompaniment in music.
- (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
- (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)
- support
- base
- (heraldry) supporter
Further reading
- “support” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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befriend
English
Etymology
From be- +? friend. Compare Saterland Frisian befrüündje (“to befriend”), Dutch bevrienden (“to befriend”), German Low German befründen (“to befriend”),German befreunden (“to befriend”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?fr?nd, IPA(key): /b??f??nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
befriend (third-person singular simple present befriends, present participle befriending, simple past and past participle befriended)
- (transitive) To become a friend of, to make friends with.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143.
- Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p. 143.
- (transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- Brother servants must always befriend one another.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- (transitive) To favor.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
- If it will please Caesar / To be so good to Caesar, as to hear me, / I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
- 1709, John Denham "The Sophy", in Poems and translations: with the Sophy, a tragedy, Fifth edition [1]
- Now if your plots be ripe, you are befriended / With opportunity.
- 1709, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend; / His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants, Act II, edited and published by Jacob Tonson (1733)
- See them embarked, And tell me if the winds and seas befriend them.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 4, "Morrison's Pill"
- This Universe has its Laws. If we walk according to the Law, the Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Antonyms
- befoe
- defriend
- unfriend
Derived terms
- befriender
- befriendment
- unbefriended
- unbefriending
Related terms
- friend
- friendly
Translations
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