Pend vs Suspend - What's the difference?
pend | suspend |
(obsolete) To hang down.
(obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
To hang; to depend.
* I. Taylor
(Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 817:
*:The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.
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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.
In obsolete terms the difference between pend and suspend
is that pend is to hang down while suspend is to make to depend.As a noun pend
is an archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.pend
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- pending upon certain powerful motions
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Compare .Etymology 3
Back-formation from (pending).Verb
(en verb)Etymology 4
Noun
(-)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.