Word Finder - suggestion

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Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

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I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.

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The act of suggesting.

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Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

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Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

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He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

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The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.

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Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

The boy smiled at the suggestion, but Shipton shook his head no.

This is a suggestion which deserves to be well weighed.

My only directive to our group was a strong suggestion we act unanimously.

Alex said nothing, his stoic features giving no suggestion of what was on his mind.

Sirian's suggestion of a cool bath and meal was inviting, but she knew she did not have the time.

His suggestion was adopted.

Dean noticed she hadn't dismissed the suggestion entirely.

We gave him our assurances we'd not violate his trust though I thought Betsy's suggestion was reasonable.

No one had a suggestion for the next step, but Fred was determined to continue to research the ownership of the severed digit.

I should have discussed Jake Weller's suggestion about my running for sheriff before dismissing it.

Giddon returned to his place on the couch, his eyes twinkling with humor and the slightest suggestion of a smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

This suggestion didn't please her, however; for she replied, "No. Nancy is very sick."

It was his suggestion about the newspaper subscription that started the whole business rolling— even if it was blind luck.

The facts do not support such a suggestion.

A person could dedicate his life to understanding just one suggestion and never even get close.

I've put a bee in the right bonnet with a suggestion to set up a separate location to exclusively handle your tips.

Dean laughed at first at his wife's suggestion, but the more he thought about it, the more the idea had a ring of validity to it.

We offer a purely conjectural suggestion.

Any suggestion of an open window shade or even a night-light was summarily dismissed.

Much as Dean had misgivings and knew he was being manip­ulated, Fred's suggestion made sense, and he reluctantly agreed to let the old man lead the prey to him.

Propositions to establish the judiciary on a more permanent tenure were also voted down in 1814, 1822, 1857 and 1870, and the state still elects its judges for two years' terms. On its own suggestion, the council of censors was abolished in 1870 and the present method of amending the constitution was adopted.

Encouraged by this success, he even made the further suggestion that the remaining metallic portion of the circuit might perhaps some day be abolished and a system of wireless telegraphy established.'

Highton in experiments described in 1872, also revived the same suggestion for wireless telegraphy.

He also repeated the suggestion which Lindsay had already made that it might be possible to signal in this manner by conduction currents through the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Europe.

The elaboration of these ideas in relation to the history of the civilization of the most advanced portion of the human race occupies two of the volumes of the Positive Philosophy, and has been accepted by very different schools as a masterpiece of rich, luminous, and far-reaching suggestion.

The drawings in Fergusson's work entitled Tree and Serpent Worship are very unsatisfactory, and his suggestion that the carvings illustrate tree and serpent worship is quite erroneous.

This last suggestion, improbable though it be, is historically important.

Even amongst the extreme advocates of the theory of mutations, the importance of magnitude is being discounted by their suggestion that some of the minute variations which have hitherto been regarded by them as insignificant "fluctuating variations" may be significant mutations.

This burlesquing of things universally held sacred, though condemned by serious-minded theologians, conveyed to the child-like popular mind of the middle ages no suggestion of contempt, though when belief in the doctrines and rites of the medieval Church was shaken it became a ready instrument in the hands of those who sought to destroy them.

This suggestion has some interest, but is of no great value, either in logic or in the theory of knowledge.

The Historiae adversum Paganos was undertaken at the suggestion of Augustine, to whom it is dedicated.

In his letters to his friend Mathilde Wesendonck, it appears that while he was composing Tristan he already had the inspiration of working out the identification of Kundry, the messenger of the Grail, with the temptress who, under the spell of Klingsor, seduces the knights of the Grail; and he had, moreover, thought out the impressively obscure suggestion that she was Herodias, condemned like the wandering Jew to live till the Saviour's second coming.

The words, "in Ephesus" were thus probably originally lacking in the address, and were inserted from the suggestion of the title.

Buache (1737) Dupain-Triel, acting on a suggestion of Du.

Immediately after her return the princess was appointed "directeur" of the St Petersburg Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in 1784 she was named the first president of the Russian Academy, which had been founded at her suggestion.

Watchnights were due to the suggestion of a Kingswood collier in 1740.

The suggestion has been made that the name Cain is the eponym, of the Kenites, and although this clan has a good name almost everywhere in the Old Testament, yet in Num.

Accordingly, every treatise on applied mathematics, properly so-called, is directed to the criticism of the "laws" from which the reasoning starts, or to a suggestion of results which experiment may hope to find.

To this suggestion, which would have excluded the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, the emperor Nicholas replied by a haughty demand that nothing should be altered in the status quo.

The suggestion has been made by Wellhausen and Robertson Smith that the Passover was, in its original form, connected with the sacrifice of the firstlings, and the latter points to the Arabic annual sacrifices called Atair, which some of the lexicographers interpret as firstlings.

The suggestion of Wellhausen and Robertson Smith confuses the offering of firstlings (Arabic Fara') and that of the first yeanlings of the year in the spring (Arabic Atair).

The suggestion that the eating of cakes of unleavened bread, similar to the Australian "damper," was due to the exigencies of the harvest does not meet the case, since it does not explain the seven days and is incongruous with the fact that the first sheaf of the harvest was put to the sickle not earlier than the third day of the feast.

From serving primitively as the essential organ of the cleft the tongue-bar may have undergone reduction and modification, becoming a secondary bar in Amphioxus, subordinate to the primary bars in size, vascularity and development; finally, in the craniate vertebrates it would then have completed its involution, the suggestion having been made that the tongue-bars are represented by the thymusprimordia.

Volumetric methods are used, but the uncertainty of the end of the reaction has led to the suggestion of special indicators, or of determining the amount of cuprous oxide gravimetrically.

The suggestion to place Brachiopods with the Polyzoa, Phoronis, Rhabdopleura and Cephalodiscus, in the Phylum Podaxonia made in Ency.

Mention should also be made of a third method which has hardly yet been tried, namely, that of endeavouring to isolate one of the three "directions" by the method of suggestion or even hypnotic trance observations.

That any partial fusion of originally distinct chitinous plates takes place in the cephalic shield of Trilobites, comparable to the partial fusion of bony pieces by suture in Vertebrata, is a suggestion contrary to fact.

A suggestion of escape from Lord Cavendish he refused.

In any case, however Aldabra was formed, there can be no suggestion of its ever having been joined to any other land (Stanley Gardiner).

On the 26th the Boers captured the harbour and settlement, and on the 31st blockaded the British camp, the women and children being removed, on the suggestion of Pretorius, to a ship in the harbour of which the Boers had taken possession.