suspend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
chemistry
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
Etymology: From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.
Inflected forms:
form: suspends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suspending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suspended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suspended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To halt something temporarily.
pos: verb
examples: The meeting was suspended for lunch.
Suspend your indignation against my brother.
The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
“Essentially everything Miller says about suspending habeas corpus – which would eliminate the ability of the courts to rule on immigration matters – is wrong,” CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said. […] The Constitution only allows habeas corpus to be suspended when “in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
gloss: To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
pos: verb
examples: suspending out judgement
gloss: To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
pos: verb
examples: to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
gloss: To hang freely; underhang.
pos: verb
examples: to suspend a ball by a thread
The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
gloss: To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
pos: verb
gloss: To make to depend.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
gloss: To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
pos: verb
examples: to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club
Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
gloss: To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
pos: verb
gloss: To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
pos: verb
Antonyms: resume
Related words: suspension
suspenders
Derived words: resuspend
suspendable
suspendee
suspend one's disbelief
unsuspend
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: suspenderen
lang: Finnish
word: liettää
lang: Finnish
word: suspendoida
lang: French
word: suspendre
lang: French
word: mettre en suspension
lang: German
word: suspendieren