Pendent vs Suspend - What's the difference?
pendent | suspend |
Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
* 1986 , Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
pending in various senses.
either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
(label) Projecting over something; overhanging.
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 an adjective pendent
is dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.As a noun pendent
is .As a verb suspend is
to halt something temporarily.pendent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders
- An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
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.
