SUPPORTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supported mean? 

• SUPPORTED (adjective)
  The adjective SUPPORTED has 2 senses:

1. sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)

2. held up or having the weight borne especially from below

  Familiarity information: SUPPORTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPORTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)

Context example:

well-supported allegations

Similar:

subsidised; subsidized (having partial financial support from public funds)

Antonym:

unsupported (not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Held up or having the weight borne especially from below

Context example:

supported joints in a railroad track have ties directly under the rail ends

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)

 Context examples 

The role of TLR2 was supported by blocking NF-kB activation with a dominant negative TLR2 and increasing it with transfection of a normal TLR2 gene.

(NFKB Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The moon in Scorpio will be supported by Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn, and also Neptune, Mercury, and Uranus.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Suddenly the door opened, and a woman as old as the hills, who supported herself on crutches, came creeping out.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Her spirit supported her, but the agony of her mind was severe.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The servant, who saw only that Miss Marianne was taken ill, had sense enough to call one of the maids, who, with Mrs. Dashwood's assistance, supported her into the other room.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It is characterized by the presence of epithelial proliferations that are supported by fibrovascular cores.

(Papillary Breast Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Her resolution was supported by Isabella's behaviour in their parting interview.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was a sleep-walker Maud guided and supported.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The beta sheets are supported by alpha helixes.

(KH Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

I looked up—I was supported by Mr. Rochester, who sat in a chair across my chamber threshold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)