Sustaining vs Living - What's the difference?
sustaining | living | Related terms |
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Having life.
* :
In use or existing.
Of everyday life.
True to life.
(uncountable) The state of being alive.
Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
A style of life.
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.
Sustaining is a related term of living.
As verbs the difference between sustaining and living
is that sustaining is while living is .As an adjective living is
having life.As a noun living is
(uncountable) the state of being alive.sustaining
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and possessions.”}}
living
English
(wikipedia living)Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- Hunanese is a living language.
- These living conditions are deplorable.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Antonyms
* dead * nonlivingDerived terms
* living death * living end * livingly * living room * living thing * living willNoun
- What do you do for a living ?
- plain living