supporting structure
1
4.0
- noun
:
estructura de soporte
- Students with autism can learn from and enjoy music classes if they are given the right support structures and adaptations to help them make connections to their teachers, their peers, and the curriculum.
And that includes everything, the tanks, the support structure, the engines.
- And that includes everything, the tanks, the support structure, the engines.
- It's a big support structure dowel, which is really smart for a cake this height.
- So the dirigible, I think has some supporting structure.
- I don't need to print directly onto the build plate and and to have my own support structure or some pre support designs for resin printing in mine.
Examples
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A support structure is needed to address the challenge of transforming individual site data into intercomparable data sets.
Academic text (2000) -
Like a huge, cylindrical well casing, the barbette was the support structure for one of the turrets holding a triple set of fourteen-inch guns.
Academic text (1991) -
And that includes everything, the tanks, the support structure, the engines.
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The physician should first ensure that the patient has appropriate support structures to assist following the telling of the news.
Academic text (1998) -
Such destinations provide informal support structures and social networks.
Academic text (2009) -
The keystone in any effective arts education support structure must be the arts educators themselves.
Academic text (1999) -
An enormous high-tech crucible has been erected; gantries and support structures rise above it.
Fiction book (1997) -
The builder repeated this process until the entire supporting structure of the bridge was in place.
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Its brick front had pulled away from the supporting structure, leaving a gap of six inches in some places.
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An enormous high-tech crucible has been erected; gantries and supporting structures rise above it.
Synonyms
141
1.4
A thing that holds up weight, like a pillar
74
1.0
A support under furniture or a projecting part of an object
73
1.4
A thing that holds or supports other objects, like a pen stand
12
4.3
An internal frame of parts that gives shape and strength to a building or machine
11
7.4
A bar of wood or metal that supports a structure
4
7.2
The parts under a building or system that hold it up
2
3.1
A part of a shoe that holds up the curved middle of the foot
1
3.9
A vertical post that holds heavy weight in a building or bridge
1
6.7
A horizontal piece of wood or metal that connects and supports two parts
1
4.9
A part of a building, like a beam, that holds weight
1
6.0
A strong metal part under a car that supports the engine and body
1
6.7
A support added to a frame to keep it steady
1
6.2
A thing you add to help something hold more weight
A hidden part under a vehicle or machine that gives it strength
A part that surrounds and supports another object
A tall structure that holds and steadies bridges or power lines
How Strong
- Specialized
127
3.6
- Specialized
1
7.3
52
2.6
1
4.0
- Specialized
11
7.4
85
4.0
68
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a structure that provides support' is directly and compositionally derived from 'supporting' (able to bear weight) modifying 'structure' (a constructed assembly). This modifier + noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Supporting structure comes from the image of beams and columns that hold up a building, where supporting means 'holding up' and structure means 'part of a building'. So it now means 'a part that holds something up'.