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Sustained vs Ongoing - What's the difference?

sustained | ongoing |

As adjectives the difference between sustained and ongoing

is that sustained is held continuously at a certain level while ongoing is continuing, permanent.

As a verb sustained

is (sustain).

As a noun ongoing is

something that is going on; a happening.

sustained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sustain)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Held continuously at a certain level.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • (music) Held at a certain pitch.

    • Synonyms

    * (held at a certain level) constant, continuous, steady

    ongoing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • continuing, permanent
  • presently or currently happening; being in progress

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is going on; a happening.
  • * 1961 , Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
    • We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.

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