Floating vs Suspend - What's the difference?
floating | suspend |
That which floats or float.
Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
(linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
(in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
* 1898 , Journal of Microscopy (page 256)
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 floating and suspend
is that floating is while suspend is to halt something temporarily.As an adjective floating
is that which floats or float.As a noun floating
is (in the plural) material that floats in a liquid.floating
English
Adjective
(-)- floating buoys
- The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.
- In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.
- You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.
Derived terms
* floating point, floating-point * floating voterVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings .
suspend
English
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.