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Sustain vs Conservation - What's the difference?

sustain | conservation |

As nouns the difference between sustain and conservation

is that sustain is (music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano while conservation is the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

As a verb sustain

is to maintain, or keep in existence.

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

    Related terms

    * sustenance * sustainment

    Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs

    conservation

    English

    (wikipedia conservation)

    Noun

  • The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
  • Wise use of natural resources.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.
  • (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
  • (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
  • (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
  • (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

    • Derived terms

    * anticonservation * anticonservationist * conservational

    Anagrams

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