Doubt vs Suspension - What's the difference?
doubt | suspension |
Uncertainty, disbelief.
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(ambitransitive) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
* Hooker
* Dryden
(archaic) To fear; to suspect.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.186:
(obsolete) To fear; to be apprehensive of.
* R. of Gloucester
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
(obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
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* Beaumont and Fletcher
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car, which allow the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
(Scots Law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
(music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
(topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
(topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function's.
(education) The process of barring a student from school grounds by means of punishment.
As nouns the difference between doubt and suspension
is that doubt is uncertainty, disbelief while suspension is the act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.As a verb doubt
is to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.doubt
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* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia doubt)- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts .
Verb
(en verb)- He doubted that was really what you meant.
- Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt
- To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
- He fled, like Joseph, leaving it; but there, / I doubt , all likeness ends between the pair.
- Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
- I doubt some foul play.
- I of doubted danger had no fear.
- The virtues of the valiant Caratach / More doubt me than all Britain.
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Noun
(en noun)- suspension from a hook
- suspension from school as a disciplinary measure