supporting

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English

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GenAm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /səˈpɔːtɪŋ/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "rhotic" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "nonrhotic" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /səˈpoətɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: sup‧port‧ing
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

supporting (comparative more supporting, superlative most supporting)

  1. That supports.

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

supporting

  1. present participle of support

Noun

supporting (plural supportings)

  1. That which supports something else; a support.
    • 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (page 252)
      But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]
    • 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute
      […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.
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