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Supporting vs Guiding - What's the difference?

supporting | guiding |

As verbs the difference between supporting and guiding

is that supporting is present participle of lang=en while guiding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective supporting

is that supports.

As a noun guiding is

guidance.

supporting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That supports.

    • Derived terms

    * supporting actor * supporting aircraft * supporting arms * supporting artillery * supporting attack * supporting character

    Verb

    (head)

    • guiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • guidance
  • * 1912 , Theodore Dreiser, The Financier
    • Butler was ready to consider any proposition which would save her; but it must be a sound one—one not open to her whimsical moods or the guidings or leadings of romance.
  • Girl Guiding
  • * 2002 , Robert T. Grimm, Notable American Philanthropists (page 189)
    • Daisy Gordon Low then established two Girl Guide troops in poor sections of central London. Her belief was growing that guiding could serve many beneficial ends.