ban vs support

ban

verb
  • To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation. 

  • To curse; to utter curses or maledictions. 

  • To curse; to execrate. 

  • To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban. 

noun
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu. 

  • A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit. 

  • A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu. 

  • The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word. 

  • Prohibition. 

  • A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. 

  • A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century. 

  • A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. 

support

verb
  • To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for. 

  • To keep from falling. 

  • To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for. 

  • To help, particularly financially. 

  • To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid. 

  • To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to. 

  • To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain. 

  • To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold. 

  • To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain. 

noun
  • An actor playing a subordinate part with a star. 

  • Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold. 

  • Evidence. 

  • Something which supports. 

  • An accompaniment in music. 

  • Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature. 

  • Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed. 

  • Financial or other help. 

  • 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). 

  • in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set. 

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