different between supporting vs accompanying

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??p??t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p??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?ing

Adjective

supporting (comparative more supporting, superlative most supporting)

1. That supports.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

supporting

1. present participle of support

Noun

supporting (plural supportings)

1. That which supports something else; a support.
   • 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (page 252)

     But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]

   • 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

     […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?m.p(?.)ni.??/

Adjective

accompanying (comparative more accompanying, superlative most accompanying)

1. Present together.
   • (1848) Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life, Preface:

     The accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life by S. T. Coleridge.

Translations

References

• “accompanying” in Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Verb

accompanying

1. present participle of accompany

Noun

accompanying (plural accompanyings)

1. That which accompanies; accompaniment.
   • 1839, William Thompson Bacon, Poems (page 46)

     He was seated / Among his equals; and a holiday / With its accompanyings — loud laughs, and jests, / And boisterous mirth — sped merrily […]