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Generative vs Sustained - What's the difference?

generative | sustained |

As adjectives the difference between generative and sustained

is that generative is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing while sustained is held continuously at a certain level.

As a verb sustained is

(sustain).

generative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
  • * That generative particle. — Bentley
  • *
  • Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.

    Synonyms

    * creative

    Antonyms

    * annihilative

    sustained

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sustain)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Held continuously at a certain level.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • (music) Held at a certain pitch.
  • Synonyms

    * (held at a certain level) constant, continuous, steady