Sustain vs Opponent - What's the difference?
sustain | opponent |
(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
An individual or group who is a rival of another.
One who attempts to stop the progression of.
One who objects to.
In team sports, a player of an opposite team.
Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
As nouns the difference between sustain and opponent
is that sustain is (music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano while opponent is an individual or group who is a rival of another.As a verb sustain
is to maintain, or keep in existence.As an adjective opponent is
situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.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 verbsopponent
English
Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* supporter * proponent * advocateAdjective
(en adjective)- (Alexander Pope)
