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sup·port
/səˈpôrt/verb
- 1. bear all or part of the weight of; hold up: "the dome was supported by a hundred white columns" Similar
- 2. give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act: "the government gives $2.5 billion a year to support the activities of the voluntary sector" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright: "the best support for a camera is a tripod" Similar
- 2. material assistance: "he urged that military support be sent to protect humanitarian convoys" Similar
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Social support can be measured as the perception that one has assistance available, the actual received assistance, or the degree to which a person is integrated in a social network. Support can come from many sources, such as family, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers, organizations, etc.
Peer support has been used to help survivors of trauma, such as refugees, cope with stress and deal with difficult living conditions. Peer support is integral to the services provided by the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care. Other programs have been designed for female survivors of domestic violence and for women in prison.
Support (mathematics) In mathematics, the support of a real-valued function is the subset of the function domain containing the elements which are not mapped to zero. If the domain of is a topological space, then the support of is instead defined as the smallest closed set containing all points not mapped to zero.
The term support group in this article refers to peer-to-peer support. Maintaining contact. Support groups maintain interpersonal contact among their members in a variety of ways. Traditionally, groups meet in person in sizes that allow conversational interaction.
A structural support is a part of a building or structure that provides the necessary stiffness and strength in order to resist the internal forces (vertical forces of gravity and lateral forces due to wind and earthquakes) and guide them safely to the ground.
That doesn’t mean the battle against inflation is won. Walmart saw first-quarter sales at stores open at least a year climb 3.8% from the prior year, in part thanks to its ability to keep prices ...
In mathematics, the support (sometimes topological support or spectrum) of a measure on a measurable topological space is a precise notion of where in the space the measure "lives". It is defined to be the largest ( closed) subset of for which every open neighbourhood of every point of the set has positive measure.
Supportive communication is the support given, both verbal and nonverbal, in times of stress, heartbreak, physical and emotional distress, and other life stages that cause distress. The intention of this support is to assist those seen as being in need of such support.
Support (art) In visual arts, the support is a solid surface onto which the painting is placed, typically a canvas or a panel. Support is technically distinct from the overlaying ground, [1] but sometimes the latter term is used in a broad sense of "support" to designate any surface used for painting, for example, paper for watercolor or ...
In stock market technical analysis, support and resistance are certain predetermined levels of the price of a security at which it is thought that the price will tend to stop and reverse. These levels are denoted by multiple touches of price without a breakthrough of the level.