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Sustained vs Received - What's the difference?

sustained | received |

As verbs the difference between sustained and received

is that sustained is (sustain) while received is (receive).

As adjectives the difference between sustained and received

is that sustained is held continuously at a certain level while received is generally accepted as correct or true.

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

    received

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (receive)
  • Adjective

    (-) the received (knowledge, wisdom, opinion, story, information)
  • Generally accepted as correct or true
  • (by implication) Unchallenged axioms
  • :"The old saying goes that we should not judge a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes. As with so much received wisdom – from judging books by their covers to the relative exchange rate for birds in hands and bushes – this is of course rubbish." Robin Wilkinson. Western Mail, Oct 30 2012.
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    Derived terms

    * received wisdom * well-received

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