support

Meanings

To keep from falling.
To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
To help, particularly financially.
To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.
To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

Something which supports.
Financial or other help.
Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
Evidence.
Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
An accompaniment in music.
Short form of support position
Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.

From Middle English supporten, from Old French supporter, from Latin supportō. Displaced Old English underwreþian and Old English fultum.
From Middle English support, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English underwreþung.

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