Sustain vs. Affirm — What's the Difference?

An effect or facility on a keyboard or electronic instrument whereby a note can be sustained after the key is released.

To declare positively; assert to be true

Strengthen or support physically or mentally

To declare support for or belief in

Undergo or suffer (something unpleasant, especially an injury)

(Law) To rule (a court decision) to have been correct; confirm

Cause to continue for an extended period or without interruption

To assert that one will give true testimony equivalent to that which would be given while under oath.

Uphold, affirm, or confirm the justice or validity of

To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.

To keep in existence; maintain, continue, or prolong

To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.

To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently.

To support or encourage.

To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for

To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (legal) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

To support the spirits, vitality, or resolution of; encourage

(law) To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.

To support from below; keep from falling or sinking; prop

To assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

To bear up under; withstand

To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; - opposed to deny.

To experience or suffer

To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.

To affirm the validity of

To declare or assert positively.

A capacity of a musical instrument to continue the resounding of a note or tone.

To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.

(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;

(transitive) To provide for or nourish.

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true;

(transitive) To encourage or sanction (something). en

Say yes to

(transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).

(transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.

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

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.

To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

(music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.

To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.

To suffer; to bear; to undergo.

To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.

To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.

One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

Lengthen or extend in duration or space;

Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);

Provide with nourishment;

Supply with necessities and support;

Be the physical support of; carry the weight of;

Admit as valid;

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;