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Suport vs Sustain - What's the difference?

suport | sustain |

As nouns the difference between suport and sustain

is that suport is support while sustain is (music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

As a verb sustain is

to maintain, or keep in existence.

suport

Not English

Suport has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'suport':

sievert, spirit, sprout, support, sport, spurt, subvert, seaport, sprat, spartan, sprit, spirt, subpart, spayart, savart

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