Console vs Sustain - What's the difference?
console | sustain | Synonyms |
A cabinet designed to stand on the floor, especially one that houses home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system.
A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon.
The keyboard and screen of a computer or other electronic device.
A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.
(video games) A device dedicated to playing video games, set apart from
(architecture) An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.
* P. Henry
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
To maintain, or keep in existence.
To provide for or nourish.
To encourage (something ).
To experience or suffer (an injury, etc. ).
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
* Dryden
Console is a synonym of sustain.
As verbs the difference between console and sustain
is that console is while sustain is to maintain, or keep in existence.As a noun sustain is
(music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.console
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)arcade cabinetsby its ability to change games.
Derived terms
* console tableSee also
* corbelEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(consol)- I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete.
- "Do you remember, my friend, that I went to Tostes once when you had just lost your first deceased? I consoled you at that time. I thought of something to say then, but now—" Then, with a loud groan that shook his whole chest, "Ah! this is the end for me, do you see! I saw my wife go, then my son, and now to-day it's my daughter."
Synonyms
* comfort, solaceDerived terms
* consolable * consolation * consolatory * consoler * consoling * consolinglysustain
English
Noun
(wikipedia sustain) (en noun)Verb
(en verb)- provisions to sustain an army
- Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain ?
- You shall sustain more new disgraces.
- to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
- A foundation sustains''' the superstructure; an animal '''sustains''' a load; a rope '''sustains a weight.
- (Shakespeare)
- his sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain
