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Lingering vs Suspension - What's the difference?

lingering | suspension | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between lingering and suspension

is that lingering is an act of lingering or waiting while suspension is the act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

As a verb lingering

is present participle of lang=en.

lingering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of lingering or waiting.
  • * 2000 , David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
    • But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings .
  • That which lingers; a remnant.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.

    suspension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
    • suspension from a hook
  • A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
    • suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * delay, interruption, intermission, stop

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

    * pleas in suspension * points of suspension * suspension bridge * suspension of arms * suspension scale