Supportive

Definition

support /sǝ'pↄ:t/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sb/sth (in sth) ေထာက္ခံသည္။ အားေပးသည္။ support a cause/political party/reform ❍ donate money to support a charity ❍ The directors were trying to get rid of her, but her staff all supported her. ❍ The American public stopped supporting the war in Vietnam. ❍ Will you support me in my campaign for election? (ခ) အားေပးသည္။ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည္။ Support your local theatre! ❍ Which football team do you support? ၂။ ေထာက္သည္။ ကန္သည္။ မသည္။ ပင့္သည္။ ခံသည္။ ေမွးသည္။ a beam supporting a roof ❍ The chair wasn't strong enough to support his weight. ❍ He took hold of her arm to support her as she stumbled. ❍ She was supporting herself on a pair of crutches. ၃။ သက္ေသျပသည္။ သက္ေသခံသည္။ သက္ေသ ထူသည္။ a theory that is not supported by the facts ❍ What evidence do you have to support your accusation? ၄။ ေထာက္သည္။ Mark has two children to support from his first marriage. ❍ She doesn't earn enough to support herself. သူရတဲ့ဝင္ေငြႏွင့္ မစားေလာက္ဘူး။ ၅။ အစာေရစာ လံုေလာက္စြာ ထြက္သည္။ It's amazing that such a barren landscape can support any form of life. n ၁။ [U] ~ (for sth) ဝိုင္းဝန္းကူညီမႈ။ အားေပးမႈ။ ေထာက္ခံမႈ။ a proposal that received little public support ❍ He has the full support of his colleagues. ❍ The company is providing financial support for this venture. ❍ Can I rely on your support (ie Will you vote for me) in the election? ❍ She has no visible means of support (ie no work, income, etc). ❍ The theatre had to close owing to lack of support. See also MORAL SUPPORT ၂။ (က) [C] ေဒါက္။ အေထာက္။ က်ား။ supports holding up a collapsing wall. (ခ) [U] အေထာက္အကူ။ She held on to his arm for support. ၃။ [C] အားကိုးရသူ။ အားကိုးအားထား။ အမီွသဟဲ။ When my father died, Jim was a great support. ❏ in support [ IDM ] အကူအညီျဖင့္။ The police are patrolling the area, with the army in support. ❏ in support of sb/sth [ IDM ] ေထာက္ခံလ်က္။ speak in support of a ban on arms supplies. ❏ supporter n ေထာက္ခံအားေပးသူ။ a football supporter ❍ a loyal supporter of the Prime Minister. ❏ supporting adj ၁။ အရံ။ a supporting actress/cast/role. ၂။ အေထာက္အထား။ supporting evidence. ❏ supportive /sǝ'pↄ:tÇv/ adj ( approv ) အေထာက္အကူ ေပးေသာ။ She was very supportive during my father's illness.

Examples

1. The United Nations has supported efforts to return the refugees peacefully.
2. The proposed reduction in taxes is supported by 73% of the people.
3. [support doing something] : The majority of Europeans support sending troops into the region.
4. [support someone in (doing) something] : Everyone came together to support him in his campaign for justice.
5. My friends have supported me through the entire trial.
6. A pair of wooden beams was the only thing supporting the roof.
7. [support something with something] : The plants were supported with wire.
8. [be supported by something] : She was sitting up in bed
9. supported by pillows.
10. [support yourself] : Use the handle to support yourself.
11. How can we support our families on such low wages?
12. [support yourself] : She’s been supporting herself since she was 18 years old.
13. His campaign was supported mainly by wealthy businessmen.
14. Thanks to all of you who supported our appeal.
15. Drug users often become thieves in order to support their addiction.
16. Several witnesses supported Mrs Carson’s claim of harassment.
17. Our conclusions are supported by extensive research.
18. You will need to provide supporting evidence for your claim.
19. I support West Ham – who do you support?
20. Does the company still support that version of the program?
21. You can download the program free
22. but it’s not supported.