Supporting vs Evidence - What's the difference?
supporting | evidence |
Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
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, 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, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
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, title= (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman
, title= One who bears witness.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
As verbs the difference between supporting and evidence
is that supporting is present participle of lang=en while evidence is to provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.As an adjective supporting
is that supports.As a noun evidence is
facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.supporting
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Derived terms
* supporting actor * supporting aircraft * supporting arms * supporting artillery * supporting attack * supporting characterVerb
(head)evidence
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(wikipedia evidence)Noun
(en-noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer, passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}
- infamous and perjured evidences
Derived terms
* anecdotal evidence * circumstantial evidence * evidence-based medicine * hearsay evidenceDerived terms
* after-discovered evidence * clear and convincing evidence * demurrer to evidence * preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence * self-evidenceVerb
(evidenc)- She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.