support

/səˈpɔːrt/

意味: 支援、支え

例文: Lena gave emotional support to Kai.
　　  レナはカイに精神的支援をした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: financial support(経済的支援), emotional support(感情的支援), technical support(技術的支援)

定義: 他の人を助けたり、支えたりすることを意味します。誰かが困っているときに手を差し伸べたり、物事がうまくいくように手助けすることです。物理的に支えることも、精神的に支えることも含まれます。

supportは約3,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
Noun: aiding the cause or policy or interests of
Noun: something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
Noun: a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
Noun: documentary validation
Noun: the financial means whereby one lives
Noun: supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
Noun: the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
Noun: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
Noun: any device that bears the weight of another thing
Noun: financial resources provided to make some project possible
Verb: give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
Verb: support materially or financially
Verb: be behind; approve of
Verb: be the physical support of; carry the weight of
Verb: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
Verb: adopt as a belief
Verb: support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
Verb: argue or speak in defense of
Verb: play a subordinate role to (another performer)
Verb: be a regular customer or client of
Verb: put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: his support kept the family together
Noun: they gave him emotional support during difficult times
Noun: the president no longer has the support of his own party
Noun: they developed a scheme of mutual support
Noun: the policy found little public support
Noun: his faith was all the support he needed
Noun: the team enjoyed the support of their fans
Noun: they called for artillery support
Noun: his documentation of the results was excellent
Noun: the strongest support for this view is the work of Jones
Noun: each child was expected to pay for their keep
Noun: he applied to the state for support
Noun: he could no longer earn his own livelihood
Noun: the statue stood on a marble support
Noun: he leaned against the wall for support
Noun: there was no place to attach supports for a shelf
Noun: the foundation provided support for the experiment
Verb: She supported him during the illness
Verb: Her children always backed her up
Verb: he does not support his natural children
Verb: The scholarship supported me when I was in college
Verb: He plumped for the Labor Party
Verb: I backed Kennedy in 1960
Verb: The beam holds up the roof
Verb: He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam
Verb: What’s holding that mirror?
Verb: his story confirmed my doubts
Verb: The evidence supports the defendant
Verb: I subscribe to your view on abortion
Verb: The stories and claims were born out by the evidence
Verb: She supported the motion to strike
Verb: Olivier supported Gielgud beautifully in the second act
Verb: We patronize this store
Verb: Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could
Verb: I cannot bear his constant criticism
Verb: The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
Verb: he learned to tolerate the heat
Verb: She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): abide, accompaniment, affirm, back, back up, backing, backup, bear, bear out, bread and butter, brook, confirm, corroborate, defend, digest, documentation, endorse, endure, fend for, financial backing, financial support, funding, hold, hold up, indorse, keep, keep going, livelihood, living, musical accompaniment, patronage, patronise, patronize, plump for, plunk for, put up, reenforcement, reinforcement, stand, stick out, stomach, subscribe, substantiate, suffer, support, supporting, sustain, sustenance, tolerate, underpin

Antonyms(反意語): negate

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): act, activity, agree, aid, approve, argue, device, foster, give, influence, match, operation, part, permit, resource, supporting structure, validation

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accommodation, accompaniment, accord, acoustic device, act out, acting, adapter, adhere, admit, afterburner, agglomerator, aid, airfoil, alarm, align, allow, amphibious operation, answer, appliance, applicator, arrange, aspergill, attack, attempt, authentication, authorize, autopilot, back, bait, bass, befit, behavior, bestow, billiard marker, bird feeder, blower, boost, bootjack, breathalyzer, breathing device, bubbler, buffer, burst, buzz, calibration, campaign, catapult, ceremony, charger, clip-on, coincide, comb, combined operation, comfort, comforter, concealment, concede, conclude, conductor, confirm, consist, continuance, contraceptive, contribute, control, converter, corer, corrective, correlate, corroborate, cough up, covert operation, creation, crusher, cryptograph, cup of tea, cutoff, dampener, damper, defend, deflector, demand, dental appliance, deposit, depressor, detector, diestock, digest, dismantling, distribute, diversion, documentation, domesticity, drive, drop forge, education, elastic device, electrical device, electronic device, emote, enact, energizer, energizing, enfeoff, enjoyment, exercise device, explosive device, expostulate, facilitation, fan, filter, fire extinguisher, flare, follow-up, framework, fumigator, fun, furlough, game, gas fixture, give, groover, grouping, guard, hand, harmonize, heap, heat exchanger, heater, holding device, homologize, horn, hydrofoil, impersonate, imponderable, imprint, indicator, information gathering, instrument, interlock, interrupter, jig, key, keyboard, kinetoscope, knocker, labor resources, lamentation, last, laughter, leadership, lease, legalize, lend, lift, lifting device, lighter, liveliness, look, machine, magnet, make, maneuver, market, measurement, mechanism, meet, memory device, mission, monetization, morale builder, music, musical instrument, mystification, natural resource, naval campaign, negotiation, nest egg, noisemaker, occupation, offense, offer, operation, optical device, organization, override, paper feed, parallel, parody, patronize, pattern, pay, peacekeeping, peeler, perturbation, pestilence, pick, placement, pleasure, politics, power takeoff, practice, precession, preparation, present, primo, privilege, probate, procedure, prod, prompter, protection, provide, provision, psychological operation, pull, puncture, re-argue, reconcile, recourse, reflector, release, relief, remote control, render, representation, requite, resemble, reset, restraint, rhyme, role, router, runner, sanction, scratcher, search, secondo, see eye to eye, self-help, sensory activity, serve, service, settle, shoehorn, shoetree, shooting stick, shredder, signaling device, sin, skeleton, snowshoe, solo, sounder, source of illumination, space walk, spare, square, stabilizer, stemmer, straightener, strengthener, stylus, subscribe, suction cup, supply, support, sweatbox, synchroflash, take-up, teaser, temptation, thanks, throwing stick, tilter, timekeeping, tongs, toy, training, trap, trigger, trust, turn, twin, use, valve, vaporizer, variation, ventilator, verbalization, vest, visa, voice part, washboard, waste, water cooler, ways and means, work, works, worship, writing, wrongdoing

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abutment, accept, advocacy, anchor, andiron, apologize, arch support, architrave, attachment, back, backboard, baluster, bar, base, basement, bear up, bearing, bearing wall, bedpost, blessing, block, bookend, brace, bracket, bridge, buoy, buttress, carry, champion, chock, close support, comforts, descant, document, endorsement, foot, foothold, foundation, fund, guarantee, handrest, hanger, harness, harp, headstock, help, leg, lifeline, logistic support, maintenance, meal ticket, patronize, pay, pedestal, perch, pier, pillow block, pole, promote, prop, prop up, prove, provide, rack, reassurance, rest, rib, rocker, scaffold, seat, second, see through, shelf, shoring, sit out, spoke, sponsor, sponsorship, stand for, stand up, step, stirrup, stock, structural member, subsidize, subsistence, suspension, sustenance, tailstock, take a joke, take lying down, tee, truss, undercarriage, undergird, underpin, uphold, validate, vamp, verify, vouch, yoke

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: abidance, accompany, affirmable, affirmation, back, backing, backup, bearable, confirmation, confirmative, confirmatory, corroboration, corroborative, corroboratory, defence, defender, document, endorsement, endorser, endurance, fund, holder, indorsement, keep, patron, patronage, reenforce, reinforce, subscriber, substantiation, substantiative, sufferance, support, supporter, supporting, supportive, sustain, sustainable, tolerance, tolerant, toleration

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, psychology, technology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: business, conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

TOEIC600

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: