Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Kept up or maintained uniformly, as at one pitch or level, especially a high pitch, or at the same degree, especially a high degree.
- In heraldry, same as
supported : see alsosurmounted .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sustain . - adjective
held continuously at a certainlevel - adjective music held at a certain
pitch
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective maintained at length without interruption or weakening
- adjective (of an electric arc) continuous
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Examples
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The name sustained an irreverent homage to the monarchy, armored with irony after his flight from fascist Europe.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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The name sustained an irreverent homage to the monarchy, armored with irony after his flight from fascist Europe.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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The name sustained an irreverent homage to the monarchy, armored with irony after his flight from fascist Europe.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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The name sustained an irreverent homage to the monarchy, armored with irony after his flight from fascist Europe.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing Allan M. Jalon 2011
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Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said the Gulf force is needed to counter what he called a sustained campaign'' by Iran in Bahrain.
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So, it's what they call a sustained decline in economic growth.
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PAUL GULLY, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: What we're trying to identify, if it has occurred is what we call sustained human to human transmission.
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UYEKI: The viruses just do not have this ability to go from a person to another person to another person, what we call sustained person to person transmission.
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UYEKI: The viruses just do not have this ability to go from a person to another person to another person, what we call sustained person to person transmission.
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PAUL GULLY, WHO: Well, what we're trying to identify, if it has occurred, is what we call sustained human-to-human transmission, i.e., one human giving it to another and giving it to another, and so on and so forth, because that would indicate that we have the potential for a pandemic.
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