Any vs Support - What's the difference?
any | support |
To even the slightest extent, at all.
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 58:
At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
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*Bible, (w) xi. 27
*:No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 No matter what kind.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Any thing(s) or person(s).
Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
Financial or other help.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 19
, author=Kerry Brown
, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
, work=The Guardian
Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
(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,
(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).
(senseid)To keep from falling.
To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
To back a cause, party etc. mentally or with concrete aid.
To help, particularly financially.
To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
* J. Edwards
To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
(archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
* Dryden
* 1881 , :
To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
As an adverb any
is to even the slightest extent, at all.As a determiner any
is at least one; of at least one kind one at all.As a pronoun any
is any thing(s) or person(s).As a noun support is
something which supports often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.As a verb support is
(senseid)to keep from falling.any
English
(wikipedia any)Alternative forms
* anie (obsolete)Adverb
(-)- I will not remain here any longer.
- If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
- I wasn't any too easy in my mind.
Determiner
(en determiner)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
Derived terms
* any and all * any old * any press is good press * any time * anybody * anyhow * anymore * anyone * anyplace * anyroad * anything * anytime * anyway * anywhen * anywhence * anywhere * anywhither * anywho * anywhom * in any case * just anySee also
* somePronoun
(head)- Any may apply.
Statistics
*support
English
Noun
(en noun)- Don't move that beam! It's a support for the whole platform.
- The government provides support to the arts in several ways.
citation, page= , passage=Kim was educated at the newly founded university in Pyongyang, named after his father, graduating in 1964. The 1960s and early 1970s were the golden years for the DPRK. It undertook rapid industrialisation, economically outstripped its southern competitor, and enjoyed the support of both the People's Republic of China, and the Soviet Union.}}
- Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support ?
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.
- If the membership function of a fuzzy set is continuous, then that fuzzy set's support is an open set.
Antonyms
* (mathematics) kernelDerived terms
* moral support * combat support (military) * support groupVerb
(en verb)- Don’t move that beam! It supports the whole platform.
- Sure they sell the product, but do they support it?
- I support France in the World Cup
- The government supports the arts in several ways.
- 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
- The IT Department supports the research organization, but not the sales force.
- I don't make decisions: I just support those who do.
- I support the administrative activities of the executive branch of the organization
- This fierce demeanour and his insolence / The patience of a god could not support .
- 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 support the character of King Lear