To lean on : Verbe (word from latin appodiar, podium family “backing panel” and “small eminence” podium; appoggiatura).
The verb “support” has many meanings:
I) Transitive verb:
1. To support or cause to be supported, to support.
Press a chose by another (to maintain, support, hold).
Support a wall with buttresses, buttresses (buttress, buttress, buttress, shoulder, buttress).
To press (a thing) against, to, to place it against another which serves as a support (to apply).
Lean a ladder against a wall (lean back).
Press (something) on… (put, poser).
Lean your elbows on the backgammon (to lean on).
Rest your head on a chair.
2. Abstract: Support, return firmer, safer.
Support his statements on raisons, valid evidence (confirm, corroborate, fortify, reinforce).
Quotation of the man of the Church, theologian, pedagogue and French writer François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, commonly known as Fénelon, nicknamed "the Swan of Cambrai" (1651-1715): "He gave him instructions that he supported various examples.
3. Provide a way toaction, protection, support for (someone, something).
Support someone (help, encourage, patronize, protect, recommend).
Endorse a candidate in an election (support).
Support someone's request, proposal, candidacy (colloquial: boost.
Military: Support an attack by artillery fire, by aviation (support).
4. Apply, press (one thing on, against another).
Step on the pedal.
Defeat his opponent and press his knee to his chest.
II) Intransitive verb:
1. To be supported; be laid on.
The vault rests on the flying buttresses (to carry, to rest, to fall).
2. Weigh more or less heavily on (press).
Press a lever.
doctor who presses thein law sensitive.
Step on the accelerator, champignon.
Push the button.
Absolute: Press away.
Press the trigger.
Horse riding: This cheval presses on the bit (absolute: he presses), he carries his head down and weighs on the bit.
Things: Quote from the French writer, director, screenwriter and dialogist Jean Herman, known as Jean Vautrin (1933-2015): “An unexpected fatigue pressed on his shoulders”.
3. Transmit with strength, emphasize (a élément by investigation report around).
Music: Press a note.
Press a word while speaking (emphasize).
4. Figurative meaning: Emphasize with strength (emphasize, emphasize).
He pressed theaspect, character primordial of this question.
It is better not to press on it.
Absolute: Quote from the French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922): “This sober art which […] does not support”.
5. Take a direction.
Press right, left (steer).
III) Reflexive pronominal verb: To rely.
1. To help oneself, to use oneself as support, support.
Lean on crutches, a cane.
Lean on my arm.
Lean against the wall, the banister (stand).
Lean strongly against a wall to exert a push (arching).
Lean against a tree.
2. Trusting, finding help in (someone, something).
People: You can fully rely on him (count, rest).
He relies on his own experience (to be based, to found, to refer).
Things: What are your suspicions based on? (to sit).
Quote from the French writer François Mauriac (1885-1970): “He relied on her, on the assurance she had given him…”.
3. Familiar: Rely on a drudgery : doing something out of obligation, against one's will (to suffer, to bear, familiar: to hit oneself).
She leaned all the work.
To lean on someone, to have to put up with him (to doingis stuff).
We're going to have to lean on it all the time evening.
See as well To lean on under Mouth slang.
Opposites of supporting: to take off, to remove, remove, let go, oppose (s'), refuse, refute, reject, touch, slip, neglect.