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Supporting vs Containing - What's the difference?

supporting | containing |

As verbs the difference between supporting and containing

is that supporting is while containing is .

As an adjective supporting

is that supports.

As a noun containing is

(in the plural) contents.

supporting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That supports.

    • Derived terms

    * supporting actor * supporting aircraft * supporting arms * supporting artillery * supporting attack * supporting character

    Verb

    (head)

    • containing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in the plural) contents
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • “Any, – all words are thine, Isabel; words and worlds with all their containings , shall be slaves to thee, Isabel.”