Support meaning

Verb: support

Pronunciation: (su’port)

Support meaning:

• Give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to

Synonyms: back up 

• Provide material help or money to cover living expenses

• Pick one person to give support and approval to in a particular role

Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for 

• Be the physical support of; carry the weight of

Synonyms: hold, sustain, hold up 

• Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, affirm 

• Adopt as a belief

Synonyms: subscribe 

• Back up with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

Synonyms: corroborate, underpin, bear out 

• Argue or speak in defence of

Synonyms: defend, fend for 

• (dramaturgy) play a subordinate role to (another performer)

• Be a regular customer or client of

Synonyms: patronize, patronise, patronage, keep going 

• Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, brook, abide, suffer, put up

Noun: support

Pronunciation: (su’port)

Support meaning:

• The activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities

• Aiding the cause, policy or interests of

• Something providing immaterial assistance to a person, cause or interest

• (military) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission

Synonyms: reinforcement, re-enforcement 

• Documentary validation

Synonyms: documentation 

• The financial means whereby one lives

Synonyms: keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance 

• Supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation

• The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

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

• Financial resources provided to make some project possible

Synonyms: financial support, funding, backing, financial backing, sponsorship
Derived forms: supporting, supports, supported
Quotations:

1. C.S. Lewis – The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only  and that is to support the ultimate career.
2. Elizabeth Wurtzel – Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.
3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.
4. Paulo Coelho – Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
5. Yann Martel – If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
6. Douglas Adams – All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
7. Amy Poehler – I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.
8. Rainbow Rowell – Just when you think you’re having a scene without Simon, he drops in to remind you that everyone else is a supporting character in his catastrophe.
9. Roxane Gay – I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying, trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

Sample sentences:

1. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
2. Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
3. Look, you can date whoever you want and I will totally support you. I am all about support. Support is my middle name. So that’s why you never told me your middle name. I figured it was something embarrassing.
4. Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you. Sing. Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on.  You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. But trust me on the sunscreen.
5. Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
6. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
7. To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
8. We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
9. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.
10. The world, we are told, was made especially for man a presumption not supported by all the facts.
11. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
12. You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.You deserve a lover who wants to dance with you, who goes to paradise every time he looks into your eyes and never gets tired of studying your expressions.You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn’t afraid to fall.You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.
13. There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.
14. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone.
15. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
16. Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
17. I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
18. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.