Usually means: Structures or systems holding something up.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word supports:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. supports: Merriam-Webster
  2. supports: Collins English Dictionary
  3. supports: Vocabulary.com
  4. Support's, Supports, support's, supports: Wordnik
  5. supports: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. supports: Wiktionary
  7. supports: Dictionary.com
  8. supports: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. supports: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. supports: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. supports: Legal dictionary
  4. supports: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supports: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. supports: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. supports: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supports: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (support)

verb:  (transitive) To help keep from falling.
verb:  (transitive) To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
verb:  (transitive) To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
verb:  (transitive) To provide evidence for; to lend credibility to.
verb:  (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented position; to give support to.
verb:  (transitive) To assist or be involved with, but not be responsible for.
verb:  (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
verb:  (transitive, said of electronic devices, programming languages, etc.) To be designed to provide capacity for; to work or be compatible with (a part, accessory, file type, program, algorithm, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; tolerate.
verb:  (transitive) To play a lesser part in the same production with (a star performer).
noun:  (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
noun:  Financial or other help.
noun:  Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
noun:  (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
noun:  (fuzzy set theory) 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).
noun:  (commutative algebra, of a module M over a commutative ring R) The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM
noun:  Evidence.
noun:  (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
noun:  An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
noun:  An accompaniment in music.
noun:  (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
noun:  (gymnastics) Clipping of support position. [(gymnastics) a position in which a gymnast is holding their body above the rings (or high bar, parallel bars...) usually with straight arms.]
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