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Sustain vs Transport - What's the difference?

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Sustain is a related term of transport.


As nouns the difference between sustain and transport

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

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

    transport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
    • to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
  • (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
    • Music transports the soul.
  • * Milton
    • [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
  • * South
    • We shall then be transported with a nobler wonder.

    Synonyms

    * (carry or bear from one place to another) convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship * banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite * (move someone to strong emotion) carry away, enrapture

    Noun

    (wikipedia transport)
  • An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
  • (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • (historical) A deported convict.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of transporting) conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping * (state of being transported by emotion) rapture * * * (system of transporting people) See public transport * (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder) * deportee, exile, expatriate

    Related terms

    * antitransport * transportability * transportable * transportage * transportation * transporter * transportive

    Derived terms

    * means of transport English heteronyms ----