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Sustain vs Renewable - What's the difference?

sustain | renewable |

As nouns the difference between sustain and renewable

is that sustain is (music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano while renewable is a thing that is ; especially , a renewable source of energy.

As a verb sustain

is to maintain, or keep in existence.

As an adjective renewable is

able to be renewed; capable of renewal.

sustain

English

Noun

(wikipedia sustain) (en noun)
  • (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To maintain, or keep in existence.
  • To provide for or nourish.
  • provisions to sustain an army
  • To encourage (something ).
  • To experience or suffer (an injury, etc. ).
  • * Dryden
  • Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain ?
  • * Shakespeare
  • You shall sustain more new disgraces.
  • To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
  • to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
  • To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
  • A foundation sustains''' the superstructure; an animal '''sustains''' a load; a rope '''sustains a weight.
  • To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
  • his sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain

    Derived terms

    * sustainable * sustainedly

    renewable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
  • (of a resource) Sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite.
  • Solar and wind power are renewable , but coal is not.

    Antonyms

    * non-renewable

    Derived terms

    * renewability

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that is ; especially , a renewable source of energy.