Crossword clues for supporting
supporting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Support \Sup*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supported; p. pr. & vb. n. Supporting.] [F. supporter, L. supportare to carry on, to convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. See Port demeanor.]
To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.
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To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.
This fierce demeanor and his insolence The patience of a god could not support.
--Dryden. To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.
To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.
To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.
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To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.
To urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.
--J. Edwards. To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.
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To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.
Wherefore, bold pleasant, Darest thou support a published traitor?
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A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.
Support arms (Mil.), a command in the manual of arms in responce to which the piece is held vertically at the shoulder, with the hammer resting on the left forearm, which is passed horizontally across the body in front; also, the position assumed in response to this command.
Syn: To maintain; endure; verify; substantiate; countenance; patronize; help; back; second; succor; relieve; uphold; encourage; favor; nurture; nourish; cherish; shield; defend; protect; stay; assist; forward.
Wiktionary
That supports. v
(present participle of support English)
WordNet
adj. furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher" [syn: encouraging]
capable of bearing a structural load; "a supporting wall" [syn: load-bearing(a), supporting(a)]
n. the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening; "he leaned against the wall for support" [syn: support]
Usage examples of "supporting".
Sir Robert Peel gave notice on the 7th of July, that, on the motion for committing the bill, he would move an instruction to the committee to divide it into two bills, that he might have an opportunity of rejecting altogether those parts of the bill which suppressed the Protestant churches of eight hundred and sixty parishes, appropriating their revenues to purposes not immediately in connection with the interests of the established church, and of supporting those provisions in which he could concur.
The slender shafts supporting the arches are well grouped and contrasted.
On the one hand, he was conservative architecturally, preferring Gothic buttresses as a means of support, and his attempt to raise the buttresses of the tribunes may have been not only out of concern for visibility but also an attempt to use the tribunes and buttresses as supporting members for the dome.
Besides, I was supporting myself well enough by bike racing and some barnstorming at weekends.
Sitting rigidly upright in his chair, supporting himself with both hands, Felix Blau regarded him imploringly.
Alan had dumped Bonner and leaned over him, supporting himself on the wall, gasping.
There would be no hope of supporting the paratroops at Brekke now, no hope of the quick breakthrough that would carry the Soviets to victory.
For railway bridges it commonly consists of cross girders, attached to or resting on the main girders, and longitudinal rail girders or stringers carried by the cross girders and directly supporting the sleepers and rails.
A drunken long shoreman is supporting himself on a sober longshoreman, he has designs on a salt herring, skin, bones, and.
The question then is, Can that gratification be found in supporting and in maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others?
Traces of an old roost: a scattering of frayed butts, toppled beer cans, empty matchbooks, an accumulation of names, dates, maledictions scratched into the supporting steelwork.
By the time he ran out of ridge Merel was already lowering herself on to the stable roof, supporting herself by clinging to the creaking guttering.
He felt Mongo supporting his weight, trying to keep his legs beneath him as they began to move.
They at any rate perceived that the vital fact concerning the new monophonic style was that the melody alone demanded individual independence, while the other parts could not, as in polyphony, ask for equal suffrage, but must sink themselves in the solid and concrete structure of the supporting chord.
Martha slowly waved a palm-leaf fan, supporting her weary weight on outspread fingers laid against the head of the bed.