Stave vs Support - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between stave and support

is that stave is to walk or move rapidly while support is to be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.

As nouns the difference between stave and support

is that stave is one of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc while support is something which supports often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.

As verbs the difference between stave and support

is that stave is to break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst often with in while support is (senseid)to keep from falling.

stave

English

Noun

(en noun)

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

* Wordsworth

Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.

(label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

A staff or walking stick.

Verb

To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .

to stave in a cask

* 1851 ,

Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.

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To push, as with a staff. With off .

* South

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .

to stave off the execution of a project

* Tennyson

And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.

To burst in pieces by striking against something.

To walk or move rapidly.

To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

* Sandys

All the wine in the city has been staved .

To furnish with staves or rundles.

(Knolles)

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

Derived terms

* stave in * stave off

Anagrams

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Verb

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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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