Suspension
[sə'spenʃ(ə)n] or [sə'spɛnʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc).
(noun.) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); 'there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait'.
(noun.) a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle.
(noun.) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something.
(noun.) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy.
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Definition
(n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
(n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
(n.) Of labor, study, pain, etc.
(n.) Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
(n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
(n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
(n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
(n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
(n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
(n.) The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.
(n.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
(n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
(n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.
Checker: Sigmund
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hanging.[2]. Interruption, intermission, SUSPENSE.[3]. Delay, postponement.[4]. Temporary deprivation (as of an office).
Checker: Stan
Examples
- Soon after a white flag was received, requesting a suspension of hostilities pending negotiations for a surrender. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The particles are not dissolved in the water, but are held there in suspension, as we call it technically. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- With the roadway and suspension chains attached, each tube weighs 1,100 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It is supposed that greater rigidity is obtained by this means than by the suspension, and, like the suspension, great widths may be spanned without an under supporting frame work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The method of supporting the wires on tall posts was then adopted by Mr. Cooke, the wires being insulated from the posts at the points of suspension, by passing them through quills. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the latter case a force of 1 pound actually balances a force of 2 pounds, but the 1-pound weight is twice as far from the point of suspension as is the 2-pound weight. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- My mind is in suspension until we win the war, Robert Jordan had said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In 1829 Brown also was the engineer for suspension bridges built over the Esk at Montrose and over the Thames at Hammersmith. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A momentary suspension of the payment of debt is not immediately felt by the people, and occasions neither murmur nor complaint. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Bounderby stayed her, by holding a mouthful of chop in suspension before swallowing it, and putting out his left hand. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- His next work was the splendid suspension bridge at Cincinnati, Ohio, which has a clear span of 1057 feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Menai tubular railway bridge, adjacent to the suspension bridge of Telford across the same strait, and already described, was the first example of this type of bridge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It scolded him and discussed his suspension. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For aerial ropeways they are extensively employed, and are of high value in bridge building, the suspension bridge being sustained by them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is shown in Fig. 229, and among suspension bridges it ranks first. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Xavier