Encounter vs Support - What's the difference?
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To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly.
To confront (someone or something) face to face.
(ambitransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
* Shakespeare
An unplanned or unexpected meeting.
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A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish.
A sudden, often violent clash, as between combatants.
(label) A match between two opposing sides.
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Financial or other help.
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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.
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(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
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To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
In transitive terms the difference between encounter and support
is that encounter is to confront (someone or something) face to face while support is to be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.encounter
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * incounter (archaic) * incountre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Three armies encountered at Waterloo.
- I will encounter with Andronicus.
Noun
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Synonyms
* (unplanned meeting ): * (hostile meeting ): clash, confrontation, brush, skirmishDerived terms
* close encounter * encounter groupsupport
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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.
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- Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support ?
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- 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