Allowance vs Support - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between allowance and support

is that allowance is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance while support is something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.

As verbs the difference between allowance and support

is that allowance is to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity while support is (to keep from falling) To keep from falling.

allowance

English

(wikipedia allowance)

Alternative forms

* allowaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

* Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --

Acknowledgment.

* The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.

* I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

* After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .

(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

A child's allowance; pocket money.

She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.

(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.

(obsolete) approval; approbation

(Crabbe)

(obsolete) license; indulgence

(John Locke)

Synonyms

* (money) * (minting) (l), (l)

Verb

(allowanc)

To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.

Our provisions were allowanced .

support

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.

Don't move that beam! It's a support for the whole platform.

Financial or other help.

The government provides support to the arts in several ways.

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Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.

Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support ?

(mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.

* 2004 , Amara Graps, An Introduction to Wavelets''] — [http://www.amara.com/IEEEwave/IW_history.html ''Historical Perspective

The first mention of wavelets appeared in an appendix to the thesis of A. Haar (1909). One property of the Haar wavelet is that it has compact support, which means that it vanishes outside of a finite interval. Unfortunately, Haar wavelets are not continuously differentiable which somewhat limits their applications.

(fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).

If the membership function of a fuzzy set is continuous, then that fuzzy set's support is an open set.

Antonyms

* (mathematics) kernel

Derived terms

* moral support * combat support (military) * support group

Verb

(en verb)

(senseid)To keep from falling.

Don’t move that beam! It supports the whole platform.

To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.

Sure they sell the product, but do they support it?

To back a cause, party etc. mentally or with concrete aid.

I support France in the World Cup

To help, particularly financially.

The government supports the arts in several ways.

To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.

The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges.

The evidence will not support the statements or allegations.

* J. Edwards

to urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy

To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.

The IT Department supports the research organization, but not the sales force.

I don't make decisions: I just support those who do.

To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.

I support the administrative activities of the executive branch of the organization

(archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.

* Dryden

This fierce demeanour and his insolence / The patience of a god could not support .

* 1881 , :

For a strong affection such moments are worth supporting , and they will end well; for your advocate is in your lover's heart and speaks her own language

To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

to support the character of King Lear

Antonyms

* oppose

Derived terms

* supportable * supported * supportive

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