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supporting::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | encouraging |
the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher.
supporting::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | support |
| Type of | activity |
| Has types | propping up, shoring, shoring up, suspension, hanging, dangling |
| Derivation | support |
Examples of supporting
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The supporting female characters are a hoot as they critique Charlie's behavior.
From the stltoday.com
The late, great British actor won a supporting actor Academy Award for the role.
From the dailynews.com
The four-way stretch provides enhanced performance by supporting active muscles.
From the timesunion.com
I am supporting their efforts with a small investment as well as being a mentor.
From the gothamgal.com
Since the EC is senior partner, the IMF must play an unfamiliar supporting role.
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They respond by supporting candidates who want to leave Wall Street unregulated.
From the kentucky.com
The role won the rotund McDaniel an Oscar as the year's best supporting actress.
From the time.com
On top of this, Yemen is finding itself supporting thousands of Somali refugees.
From the bbc.co.uk
Autumn is also the time to consider whether your immune system needs supporting.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"
- The activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities; "his support kept the family together"; "they gave him emotional support during difficult times"
- Aiding the cause or policy or interests of; "the president no longer has the support of his own party"; "they developed a scheme of mutual support"
- Support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"
- Back: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
- A military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission; "they called for artillery support"
- Sympathy is a social affinity in which one person stands with another person, closely understanding his or her feelings. Also known as empathic concern, it is the feeling of compassion or concern for another, the wish to see them better off or happier. ...
- In mathematics, the support of a function is the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set. This concept is used very widely in mathematical analysis. ...
- In mathematics, the support (sometimes topological support or spectrum) of a measure u03BC on a measurable topological space (X,u00A0Borel(X)) is a precise notion of where in the space X the measure "lives". It is defined to be the largest (closed) subset of X for which every open neighbourhood of every point of the set has positive measure.
