Sustain vs Supported - What's the difference?
sustain | supported |
(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
Held in position, especially from below.
Furnished with corroborating evidence.
Helped or aided.
Having supporters.
(support)
As verbs the difference between sustain and supported
is that sustain is to maintain, or keep in existence while supported is (support).As a noun sustain
is (music) a mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.As an adjective supported is
held in position, especially from below.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