Word Finder - suspended

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To halt something temporarily.

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The meeting was suspended for lunch.

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To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

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to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief

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To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

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to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

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To hang freely; underhang.

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to suspend a ball by a thread

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To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.

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To make to depend.

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To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.

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to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club

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To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

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(travel) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.

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Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.

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Hung from above.

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(of an ovule) Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.

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(of coffee, food, etc.) Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.

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A chemical suspension

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(of a chord) Having had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.

He was suspended in the air by the straps of his harness.

We are a tiny dot of life suspended in a nearly infinite universe.

A clerk in like case might be suspended from office.

They stood in front of an airy, light tent resembling a silk sheet suspended in midair over a table.

Hansen counted the number of yeast cells suspended in a drop of liquid diluted with sterilized water.

Winter suspended the movements of the fleets.

In the case of high tension voltmeters, the movable plate takes the form of a single plate of paddle shape, and for extra high tensions it may simply be suspended from the end of a balanced arm; or the movable system may take the form of a cylinder which is suspended within, but not touching, another fixed cylinder, the relative position being such that the electric forces draw the suspended cylinder more into the fixed one.

The potassium sulphocyanide is obtained from ammonium sulphocyanide, which is formed by washing crude coal gas with water containing suspended sulphur.

Sir Robert Peel, whose original views on protection had been rapidly yielding to the arguments afforded by the success of his own budgets, concluded that it was impossible to provide for the necessities of Ireland without suspending the corn laws; and that, if they were once suspended, it would be equally impossible to restore them.

The acid not only takes up water, but it acts on the suspended impurities, carbonizing them to some extent, and thus causing them to coagulate and fall down in the form of a flocculent mass, which carries with it mechanically other impurities which have not been acted upon.

As in all new states, the question of a circulating medium was acute during the first half of the '9th century, and state banks were organized, which suspended specie payments in times of financial stringency.

When finely powdered and rubbed down with water they form emulsions, the undissolved resin being suspended in the gum solution.

A truce was thereupon concluded and hostilities were suspended till the summer of 1625, in the course of which Gustavus took Kokenhusen and invaded Lithuania.

While sleep was only partially suspended and Dean's fantasy returned, morning brought the news that the noise had been real—Pumpkin Green had left in the night, bumping his shopping cart down the stairs to a clandestine exit.

The souls sensed their Keeper and rose from the floor of the deep lake to hover around him like suspended, tiny green lanterns.

On the 23rd of February 1895 General Calleja suspended the constitutional guarantees.

The charter was suspended at the beginning of the Andros regime in 1686, but was restored again after the Revolution of 1689.

Three of the leaders were sentenced to death by military commissions, but sentence was suspended until 1866, when they were released under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the famous case Ex parte Milligan.

Returning to Paris in 1838, he refused a proffered chair at the College de France, but in 1848, the oath having been suspended, he resumed his post at the Ecole Polytechnique, and when the oath was reinstituted after the coup d'etat of 1851, Cauchy and Arago were exempted from it.

Renan's lectures were pronounced a disturbance of the public peace, and he was suspended.

He received a two year suspended sentence in April 1998 for inciting racial hatred.

Griffin then earned a two-year suspended prison sentence for his views on the Holocaust.

The vaccine is suspended in the aqueous phase of an oil adjuvant emulsion.

Perhaps a kind of suspended animation, yet many pieces being put into place which lay the foundations for a new situation.

The faces of the defense and prosecuting attorneys appear on screens suspended over the stage on stage right and stage left.

Although, however, he adds that at this point he suspended his religious inquiries, " acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants," his readers will probably do him no great injustice if they assume that even then it was rather to the negations than to the affirmations of Protestantism that he most heartily assented.

The great excavation of the Osireion at Abydos, begun for the Society (then the Egypt Exploration Fund) by Prof. Edouard Naville, 4 ' but suspended owing to the war, it has not been possible to resume at present, owing to the commitments of the Amarna site and the heavy expense of such work as that at the Osireion, which cannot vet be contemplated.

She suspended the meetings of the estates in most parts of her dominions.

Another view is that the colour is due to some comparatively simple substance suspended in a colourless medium.

Graillot of the University of Bordeaux, member of the French School of Rome, but after two weeks' work was suspended by order of the Italian government, and then resumed under the supervision of their own officials.

Thus prepared, the specimens are placed on shelves or movable trays, at intervals of about 6 in., in an air-tight cupboard, on the inner side of the door of which, as a special protection against insects, is suspended a muslin bag containing a piece of camphor.

The zinc plates are then drawn close together by means of straps, and suspended before a fire until the drying is effected.

In some instances arm-chairs, carved out of the living rock, stand between the doors of the chambers, and the walls above are decorated with the semblance of suspended shields.

All work was to be suspended that all might join in the processions.

In July of that year the sultan Abd-ul-Hamid capitulated to the Young Turks and restored by Irade (July 24) the constitution which he had granted in December 1876 and suspended on the 14th of February 1878.

Nevertheless, John, who had been abandoned by the duke of Austria and imprisoned in the castle of Radolfzell, near Constance, was arraigned, suspended and deposed (May 29th), and himself ratified the sentence of the council.

The very important activities of the Conseil Permanent International pour l'Exploration de la Mer were suspended during the war except in a few local seas.

In 1920 a very influential movement began, in England, for the despatch of a new " Challenger " expedition on a great scale, but it was suspended in 1921 for lack of funds.

Baird was also wounded, and as night was approaching, Hope suspended the advance, and subsequently embarked the army, with scarcely any further loss.

Wellington then suspended the siege in order to meet Soult, who endeavoured (July 25) to turn the allied right, and reach Pampeluna.

It is, like milk, an emulsion, and when examined with the microscope is seen to consist of numerous globules suspended in a watery fluid.

The watery fluid in which the globules are suspended holds certain proteids, carbohydrates and a small proportion of salts in solution.

Large objects are suspended in the tanks by hooks or wires, care being taken to shift their position and so avoid wire-marks.

Hence processes have been patented in which the objects to be plated are suspended in revolving drums between the anodes, the rotation of the drum causing the constant renewal of surfaces and affording a burnishing action at the same time.

Sherard Cowper Coles patented a process in which, working with a high current density, a lead anode is used, and powdered zinc is kept suspended in the solution to maintain the proportion of zinc in the electrolyte, and so to guard against the gradual acidification of the bath.

While he also prevents interruption of the operation by means of water-jackets, he uses hot-blast, and produces, besides metallic lead, large volumes of lead fumes which are drawn off by fans through long cooling tubes, and then forced through suspended bags which filter off the dust, called "blue powder."

The kettle is spherical, and is suspended over a fire-place by a broad rim resting on a wall; it is usually of cast iron.

In the old Dutch method, pieces of sheet lead are suspended in stoneware pots so as to occupy the upper two-thirds of the vessels.

These are knocked off, ground up with water, freed from metal-particles by elutriation, and the paste of white lead is allowed to set and dry in small conical forms. The German method differs from the Dutch inasmuch as the lead is suspended in a large chamber heated by ordinary means, and there exposed to the simultaneous action of vapour of aqueous acetic acid and of carbon dioxide.

The bar-magnet, if suspended horizontally in a paper stirrup by a thread of unspun silk, will also come to rest in the magnetic meridian with its marked end pointing northwards.