Suspend
[sə'spend] or [sə'spɛnd]
Definition
(verb.) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; 'suspend the particles'.
(verb.) make inoperative or stop; 'suspend payments on the loan'.
(verb.) hang freely; 'The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them'.
(verb.) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc..
(verb.) render temporarily ineffective; 'the prison sentence was suspended'.
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Definition
(n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
(n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
(n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
(n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.
(n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
(v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
Typed by Elroy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Hang, SLING UP.[2]. Make to depend.[3]. Interrupt, intermit, stay, stop, discontinue, arrest, leave off, give over, break off.[4]. Defer, delay, postpone, withhold, lay over, stave off.[5]. Debar (as from an office) temporarily.
v. n. Stop payment, become bankrupt, go into bankruptcy.
Checked by Barry
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Attach, hang, rest, interrupt, delay, intermit, stop, discontinue
ANT:Detach, drop, remove, continue, expedite, protract, prolong
Typist: Murray
Definition
v.t. to hang one thing beneath another: to make to depend on: to make to stop for a time: to delay: to debar from any privilege office emolument &c. for a time.—ns. Suspen′ded-animā′tion the temporary cessation of the outward signs and of some of the functions of life—due to asphyxia drowning strangulation; Suspen′der one who or that which suspends one of a pair of straps crossing the shoulders to support the trousers; Suspense′ state of being suspended: act of withholding the judgment: uncertainty: indecision: stop betwixt two opposites; Suspensibil′ity susceptibility of being suspended.—adj. Suspen′sible capable of being suspended.—ns. Suspen′sion act of suspending: interruption: delay: temporary privation of office or privilege: a conditional withholding; Suspen′sion-bridge a bridge in which the roadway is supported by chains which pass over elevated piers and are secured below at each end.—adj. Suspen′sive.—adv. Suspen′sively.—n. Suspen′sor a suspensory bandage.—adj. Suspensō′rial.—n. Suspensō′rium that which holds up a part esp. the arrangement joining the lower jaw to the cranium in vertebrates below mammals.—adj. Suspen′sory that suspends: doubtful.—n. that which suspends: a bandage: having the effect of delaying or staying.—Suspend payment to publicly stop paying debts from insolvency.
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Examples
- I have received an analogous account from Dr. Gunther, who has seen a mouse thus suspend itself. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Between the poles of a strong magnet suspend a movable coil which is connected with a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I request them to suspend their decision until they have read my narrative. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Louisa would suspend the occupation of the moment, whatever it was, and look for the reply as earnestly as Sissy did. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This went so far as to move the President to ask me to suspend Sherman's march for a day or two until I could think the matter over. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I would by no means suspend any pleasure of yours, he coldly replied. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It swings on hinges which suspend it from the cross bar, running from each of the kick-backs across the pit end at the top. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My impression is that the shock inflicted on me completely suspended my thinking and feeling power. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If a close coil of wire is suspended between the poles of a strong horseshoe magnet, it will not assume any characteristic position but will remain wherever placed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Whatever he might have heard against meought he not to have suspended his belief? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was proposed also to have submarine guns suspended from each bow. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If a delicately made magnet is suspended as in Figure 223, and is allowed to swing freely, it will always assume a definite north and south position. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Another night was coming on, for another night he was to be suspended in chain of physical life, over the bottomless pit of nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For this reason, the coil can turn only until the motion caused by the current is balanced by the twist of the suspending wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But as the coil turns, the suspending wire becomes twisted and hinders the turning. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The balance can be regained by suspending an equivalent weight at the opposite end of the bar, or by applying a 2-pound weight at a point 3 inches to the left of _F_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is easy to see that long-continued rotation would be impossible in the arrangement of Figure 228, since the twisting of the suspending wire would interfere with free motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A very striking experiment can be made by suspending from the ceiling a heavy weight and striking this weight gently at regular, properly timed intervals with a small cork hammer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Move the 4-pound weight so that it is very near the fulcrum, say but 6 inches from it; then the spring balance registers a force only one fourth as great as the weight which it suspends. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Typist: Thaddeus