Sacking vs Suspend - What's the difference?
sacking | suspend |
(uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
(countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
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 verbs the difference between sacking and suspend
is that sacking is while suspend is to halt something temporarily.As a noun sacking
is (uncountable) cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).sacking
English
Noun
- The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.
- He followed his sacking with a good drunk.
Verb
(head)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.
