What's the difference between nourish and support?

Nourish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
  • (v. t.) To support; to maintain.
  • (v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
  • (v. t.) To cherish; to comfort.
  • (v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
  • (v. i.) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
  • (v. i.) To gain nourishment.
  • (n.) A nurse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
  • (2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
  • (3) Forty-one rats were allocated to one of 3 groups: group I (n = 13) were normally nourished rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, group II (n = 16) were semistarved rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, and group III (n = 12) were normally nourished rats which underwent sham operations.
  • (4) The rate of Cryptosporidium detection was similar among malnourished and well-nourished patients, as determined by weight-for-height percentiles.
  • (5) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
  • (6) The findings suggested that the fetuses of the poorly nourished mothers (mean gain weight during pregnancy was only 6 kg.
  • (7) Hydrogen breath tests were performed in Gabon (Central Africa) after a loading dose of lactose in 67 well-nourished African children (50 with intestinal parasites and 17 unparasitized) and in 18 unparasitized young adults.
  • (8) Both malnourished cancer and non-cancer patients had lower values than well-nourished (p less than 0.05).
  • (9) During period B, 8 well-nourished patients and 10 malnourished cancer patients were used as control groups.
  • (10) The measurements of feeding efficiency provides the basis for early identification of children who cannot be adequately nourished without ancillary feeding by nasogastric tube or by enterostomy.
  • (11) This study was designed to compare morphometric relationships between myelin lamellae and axons in undernourished and well nourished developing rats, and in rats nutritionally rehabilitated for two weeks.
  • (12) Adrenaline at 0.005 microgram kg-1 min-1 increased plasma FFA levels by 19% (P less than 0.05) in weight-losing patients while no significant alteration was observed in well-nourished patients.
  • (13) The well-nourished old had outcomes that did not differ from younger patients.
  • (14) The present study assessed development of malnourished and adequately nourished children in hospital and found that mean DQS of each group rose to a similar extent during recovery from illness.
  • (15) Plasma suppressive activity (PSA) was low in normal subjects and well nourished patients with benign disease and was associated entirely with alpha-2-macroglobulin (a2M).
  • (16) The concentration of mononuclear inflammatory cells and plasma cells was about half that seen in well-nourished children with severe nongastrointestinal infections.
  • (17) These infants may be at greater risk for nosocomial infection than normally nourished hosts.
  • (18) Developing rats were either malnourished or adequately nourished during the prenatal period by feeding their dams diets of 6% (low) or 25% (adequate) casein content 5 weeks prior to mating and throughout pregnancy.
  • (19) Microvillus surface area per cell appears dependent on the number of microvilli per cell, which equals the cell flat surface times the microvillus numerical density (number of microvilli per square micrometer) in well-nourished rats.
  • (20) It is concluded that most of these findings can be attributed to differences in the quantity and nature of the nitrogen supplied in the basal diets and that the sheep nourished by infusion would be a suitable model for the study of factors involved in the control of urea recycling.

Support


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.
  • (v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.
  • (v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.
  • (v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.
  • (v. t.) To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.
  • (v. t.) To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.
  • (v. t.) To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.
  • (v. t.) To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.
  • (v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.
  • (n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.
  • (n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.
  • (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
  • (2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (3) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
  • (4) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (5) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (6) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (7) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (8) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
  • (9) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
  • (10) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
  • (11) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (12) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
  • (13) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
  • (14) The data support the conclusion that accumulation of lipid II is responsible in some way for the hypersensitivity of delta rfbA mutants to SDS.
  • (15) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
  • (16) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (17) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (18) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
  • (19) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (20) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.