Suspend vs Primage - What's the difference?
suspend | primage |
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.
(archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
* 1818 , , The Political State of the British Empire , Volume 3,
(archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne) .
(Australia, New Zealand) An additional import duty levied by customs.
* 1932 , E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932 ,
(engineering, rare) Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
* 1883 , Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management ,
As a verb suspend
is to halt something temporarily.As a noun primage is
(archaic) a payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship or primage can be (engineering|rare) droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).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.
Antonyms
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* * English ergative verbs ----primage
English
Etymology 1
From primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)Noun
(en noun)page 197,
- By the bill of lading the ma?ter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accu?tomed.
- The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)page 75,
- Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage ; all others exhibit a slight superheat.