furnishing support and encouragement, capable of bearing a structural load, That supports, verb_ Present participle of support, noun_ the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

Plural form of support, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of support

To assume to be true or real for the sake of argument or explanation, To imply as an antecedent condition; presuppose, To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion, transitive verb_ To imagine; to believe; to receive as true, To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature, obsolete To put by fraud in the place of another, verb_ require as a necessary antecedent or precondition, take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand, expect, believe, or suppose

Presumed to be true or real without conclusive evidence, Firmly believed; expected, based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of suppose

Greatest in power, authority, or rank; paramount or dominant, Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power, greatest in status or authority or power, noun_ The chief; the superior, [capitalized] With the definite article, the Supreme Being. See phrase above, The highest point. [Rare.], verb_ transitive (cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds

the capital of Singapore; one of the world's biggest ports, an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula, a country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965, proper An island city state in Southeast Asia located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony. Official name_ Republic of Singapore

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a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade

knitting slip marker, noun_ The chemical symbol of samarium, a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite, a master's degree in science

a white opaque brittle solid, NaOH, having a fibrous structure, produced by the action of quicklime, or of calcium hydrate (milk of lime), on sodium carbonate. It is a strong alkali, and is used in the manufacture of soap, in making wood pulp for paper, etc. Called also sodium hydrate, and caustic soda. By extension, a solution of sodium hydroxide, a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt), a white crystalline substance, Na2CO3.10H2O, having a cooling alkaline taste, found in the ashes of many plants, and produced artifically in large quantities from common salt. It is used in making soap, glass, paper, etc., and as alkaline agent in many chemical industries. Called also sal soda, washing soda, or soda. Cf. Sodium bicarbonate, and Trona