{
  "id": "support.assistance",
  "term": "support",
  "sense": "assistance",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday-language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to help something stay in place by being a part that touches it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "help.assistance",
      "part.relation",
      "persist.continue",
      "space.extent",
      "touch.together"
    ],
    "interaction": "a part touches something and helps it persist in place, resisting displacement through time and space",
    "novel_properties": [
      "stability through contact",
      "spatial anchoring",
      "continuity of position"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's solar arrays are braced by metal trusses that keep them aligned despite thermal shifts.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Roots of mangrove trees in Sundarbans hold soil in place against tidal erosion.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Domain Name System (DNS) relies on root servers to keep web addresses resolvable worldwide.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "base.foundation",
    "foot.body-part",
    "friend.social",
    "premature.early",
    "sponsored.financial",
    "table.furniture"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "support",
    "supported",
    "supporting",
    "supports"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "updated components to include foundational concepts implied by the definition: persist.continue, space.extent, and touch.together; interaction and novel_properties adjusted accordingly. definition ret"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-support.assistance"
}