What's the difference between support and suspensor?
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.
Suspensor
Definition:
(n.) A suspensory.
(n.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protein content was examined in embryos and suspensors.
(2) acid-, alkaline-, adenosine triphosphatase, peroxidase, succinate dehydrogenase, cyotchrome oxidase) and general substances (ascorbic acid, polysaccharides, lipids) were localized in the suspensor during different phases of embryo growth.
(3) Hyphae are enclosed and digested by embryonic cytoplasm after M. osmundicola penetrates the embryo through suspensor cells, and then meristem cells begin to divide.
(4) The hypothesis of a retractable suspensor system is advanced to explain why in normal fixation conditions the odontoblast processes associated with nerve fibrils have not been observed in the outer layers of dentine.
(5) The levels were moderately decreased when the embryo was cultured detached from or without the suspensor.
(6) The role of the suspensor in the early development of the dicot embryo has not yet been defined.
(7) After 12 months, the suspensor was abandoned and the aforementioned investigations were performed again.
(8) The development of suspensor in Brassica campestris is of the "Onagrad type"; The suspensor growth was maximum between the globular and heart stage of embryo development.
(9) The possibility of suspensor having secretory function is also brought out.
(10) Electron microscopy of thin sections revealed the chlamydospore wall to be double layered, the outer thin layer being continuous with the wall of the suspensor cell.
(11) Immunofluorescent staining of protein bodies in cotyledon cells, histochemical staining reactions of the sections, as well as gel electrophoretic analysis of the proteins, isoelectric focusing and Western blotting confirmed the specificity and reliability of the immunochemical staining of the suspensor cells.
(12) In order to further elucidate the role of the suspensor we have examined protein synthesis in early 0.2-mm and late heart stage 0.5-mm Phaseolus vulgaris (var.
(13) In order to further elucidate the role of the suspensor, early 0.2-mm and late heart stage 0.5-mm Phaseolus vulgaris (var.
(14) Distinct positive signals were found in vacuoles of the suspensor giant cells.
(15) Protein levels were substantially decreased when the embryo was cultured detached from or without the suspensor.
(16) The irregular division of the suspensor cells, delay in the apical cell division upon the normal suspensor division, irregular position of septa and irregular form of the embryonic body were also observed.
(17) The results give evidence for synthesis of storage proteins in the embryo-suspensor and indicate a function so far not detected of this embryonal nutritive organ.
(18) Present histochemical data indicated that suspensor was chiefly concerned with absorption and transport of metabolites from the surrounding tissue to the developing embryo.
(19) Between the globular and heartshaped stage, suspensor cells had strong reaction.
(20) Very low levels could be detected in earlier stages of the endosperm, the integument, the funiculus, and probably also in the embryo suspensor.