sustain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To maintain, or keep in existence.

   “The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.”

2. fiil To provide for or nourish.

   “provisions to sustain an army”

3. fiil To encourage or sanction (something).
4. fiil To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).

   “The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.”

5. fiil To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.

   “to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition”

6. fiil To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

   “When I desir’d their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own house, charg’d me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.”

9. isim A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

   “To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […]”

10. isim Clipping of sustainability.