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SUPPORTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Held up or having the weight borne especially from below
Example:
supported joints in a railroad track have ties directly under the rail ends
Classified under:
Similar:
based (having a base)
braced; buttressed (held up by braces or buttresses)
gimbaled (supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips)
dependent; pendant; pendent (held from above and hanging down)
supernatant (of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate)
suspended ((of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment)
underhung (supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above)
underslung (supported from above especially in a vehicle having springs attached to the axle from below)
Antonym:
unsupported (not held up or borne)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)
Example:
well-supported allegations
Classified under:
Similar:
subsidised; subsidized (having partial financial support from public funds)
Antonym:
unsupported (not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb support
Context examples:
Laurie dashed downstairs for water, while Meg and Hannah supported her, and Jo read aloud, in a frightened voice...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A sheet-like cellular projection that is supported by an ordered network of actin microfilaments.
(Lamellipodia, NCI Thesaurus)
That Mr. Dick supported her on his arm.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In some instances, the placenta even supported the female fetus better than the placenta of a younger mother.
(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)
It is attached to and supported by the lamina.
(Nuclear Inner Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Very recent seismic imaging has supported this concept.
(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)
Furnished with or supported by documents and documentation.
(Documented, NCI Thesaurus)
It was evident that up to lately there had been a large notice-board in front of the balcony; it had, however, been roughly torn away, the uprights which had supported it still remaining.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The importance of JAK3 in IL-7 signaling is supported by the similarity of the immune defects in JAK3 knockout mice and IL-7 knockout mice.
(IL7 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
