Crystallize vs Suspend - What's the difference?
crystallize | suspend |
(transitive, chemistry, physics) to make something form into crystals
to assume a crystalline form
to give something a definite or precise form
to take a definite form
to coat something with crystals, especially with sugar
To halt something temporarily.
* Shakespeare
* Denham
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
To hang freely; underhang.
To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
(obsolete) To make to depend.
* Tillotson
To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
* Bishop Sanderson
(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
As verbs the difference between crystallize and suspend
is that crystallize is (transitive|chemistry|physics) to make something form into crystals while suspend is to halt something temporarily.crystallize
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Alternative forms
* crystalize * (non-Oxford British spelling) crystallise, crystaliseVerb
(crystalliz)- I crystallized the copper sulphate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.
- The copper sulphate crystallized from solution.
- After some thought, I crystallized my ideas for the paper.
- My ideas crystallized overnight.
- We crystallized the fruit by coating in sugar.
Derived terms
* crystallizable * crystallization / crystallisationsuspend
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Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
- (John Locke)
- to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
- to suspend a ball by a thread
- God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
- to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
- Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.