Support vs Indemnify - What's the difference?
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Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
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.
* 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.
To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
* 1670 , , letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple ,
(senseid)(chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury
* 1906 , Civil Code of the State of California [http://books.google.com/books?id=Vds3AAAAIAAJ], page 405:
(obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
*1583 , Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries , i. 63a
*:He... did not belieue]] that his [[Majesty, Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified .
*1593 , Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard , E ij
*:What harme the Rhodians haue]] [[done, doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?
Support is a related term of indemnify.
As verbs the difference between support and indemnify
is that support is (senseid)to keep from falling while indemnify is to secure against loss or damage; to insure or indemnify can be (obsolete|rare) to hurt, to harm.As a noun support
is something which supports often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.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.
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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
Antonyms
* opposeDerived terms
* supportable * supported * supportiveStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----indemnify
English
Etymology 1
From (forming verbs'')''Oxford English Dictionary , 1st ed. "indemnify, v.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1900.Verb
(en-verb)page 101:
- The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
- The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.