Support vs Suppose - What's the difference?
support | suppose |
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.
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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.
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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.
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To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
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To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
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To put by fraud in the place of another.
In transitive terms the difference between support and suppose
is that support is to be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for while suppose is to theorize or hypothesize.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 ----suppose
English
Verb
(suppos)citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
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- How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
- Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.
- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
- Purpose supposes foresight.
- One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.