Durable vs Sustain - What's the difference?
durable | sustain |
(economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
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(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
As nouns the difference between durable and sustain
is that durable is a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year while sustain is a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.As an adjective durable
is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.As a verb sustain is
to maintain, or keep in existence.durable
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Synonyms
* permanentAntonyms
* weak * vulnerable * transitoryNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* nondurable ----sustain
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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
