Sustain vs Borne - What's the difference?
sustain | borne |
(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
carried, supported.
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* 1881: ", Poems , page
* c.2000 - , II
* 1907 , , The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W]
*:“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.”
As a noun 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.As an adjective borne is
narrow.sustain
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
Derived terms
* sustainable * sustainedlyAnagrams
* English transitive verbsborne
English
Adjective
(-)- In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
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- When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
- Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.