What is the meaning of support?

noun

• The activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities.
  • usage: "his support kept the family together"; "they gave him emotional support during difficult times"
• Aiding the cause or policy or interests of.
  • usage: "the president no longer has the support of his own party"; "they developed a scheme of mutual support"
• Something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest.
  • usage: "the policy found little public support"; "his faith was all the support he needed"; "the team enjoyed the support of their fans"
• A military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission.
  • usage: "they called for artillery support"
  • synonyms: reinforcement, reenforcement
• Documentary validation.
  • usage: "his documentation of the results was excellent"; "the strongest support for this view is the work of Jones"
  • synonyms: documentation
• The financial means whereby one lives.
  • usage: "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
  • synonyms: keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance
• Supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation.
  • usage: "the statue stood on a marble support"
• The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening.
  • usage: "he leaned against the wall for support"
  • synonyms: supporting
• A musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts.
  • synonyms: accompaniment, musical accompaniment, backup
• Any device that bears the weight of another thing.
  • usage: "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf"
• Financial resources provided to make some project possible.
  • usage: "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
  • synonyms: financial support, funding, backing, financial backing

verb

• Give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to.
  • usage: "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"
  • synonyms: back up
• Support materially or financially.
  • usage: "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"
• Be behind; approve of.
  • usage: "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
  • synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for
• Be the physical support of; carry the weight of.
  • usage: "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror"
  • synonyms: hold, sustain, hold up
• Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
  • usage: "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
  • synonyms: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, affirm
• Adopt as a belief.
  • usage: "I subscribe to your view on abortion"
  • synonyms: subscribe
• Support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm.
  • usage: "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
  • synonyms: corroborate, underpin, bear out
• Argue or speak in defense of.
  • usage: "She supported the motion to strike"
  • synonyms: defend, fend for
• Play a subordinate role to (another performer. )
  • usage: "Olivier supported Gielgud beautifully in the second act"
• Be a regular customer or client of.
  • usage: "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"
  • synonyms: patronize, patronise, patronage, keep going
• Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
  • usage: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
  • synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, brook, abide, suffer, put up