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Support can be a verb or a noun.
support used as a verb:
- To keep from falling.
"Don’t move that beam! It supports the whole platform." - To provide materials, effort, information or endorsement for a specific activity, ideal, or entity
- # To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- #: Sure they sell the product, but do they support it?
- # To back a cause, party etc. mentally or with concrete aid.
- #: I support France in the World Cup
- # To help, particularly financially.
- #: The government supports the arts in several ways.
- # To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset
- #: The IT Department supports the research organization, but not the sales force.
- # To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- #: I support the administrative activities of the executive branch of the organization
- # To imply a service role.
- #: I don't make decisions, I just support those who do.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
support used as a noun:
- Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
"Don’t move that beam! It’s a support for the whole platform." - Financial or other help.
"The government provides support to the arts in several ways." - Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
"Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support?" - in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is support?
- Verb usage: Don’t move that beam! It supports the whole platform.
- Noun usage: Don’t move that beam! It’s a support for the whole platform.
- Noun usage: Don’t move that beam! It’s a support beam.
- Noun usage: The government provides support to the arts in several ways.
- Noun usage: Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support?
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of support are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of support, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).