Oppose vs Suit - What's the difference?
oppose | suit |
To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand.
To object to.
To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
* John Locke
* 1839 , Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug
To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
* Shakespeare
To compete with; to strive against.
* Shakespeare
A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
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, title= (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
(pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
A full set of armour.
(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
(obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
The full set of sails required for a ship.
(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds and French playing cards.
(obsolete) Regular order; succession.
(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
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To be appropriate or apt for.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
:Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
(lb) To dress; to clothe.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:So went he suited to his watery tomb.
To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to fit one's taste.
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(lb) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by to'', archaically also followed by ''with .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The place itself was suiting to his care.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
As verbs the difference between oppose and suit
is that oppose is while suit is to make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.As nouns the difference between oppose and suit
is that oppose is opposite while suit is a set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.As an adjective oppose
is opposite.oppose
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Verb
(oppos)- to oppose''' the king in battle; to '''oppose a bill in Congress
- There is still time to oppose this plan.
- Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.
- They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.
- I may oppose my single opinion to his.
- [T]hree walls had been left standing, with large intervals between each; and they would certainly oppose a most formidable interruption to an invader.
- Her grace sat down / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.
- to oppose a rival for a prize
- I am too weak / To oppose your cunning.
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- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —(Alexander Pope).
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — (William Cowper).
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — (Francis Bacon).
- Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — (Edmund Spenser).
