Snooze vs Suspend - What's the difference?
snooze | suspend |
To sleep, especially briefly; to nap.
To pause; to postpone for a short while.
* 2003 , Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (page 110)
* 2007 , Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming (page 359)
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A period of sleep; a nap.
Something boring.
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 snooze and suspend
is that snooze is to sleep, especially briefly; to nap while suspend is to halt something temporarily.As a noun snooze
is a period of sleep; a nap.snooze
English
Verb
(intransitive)- The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.
- It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock
- Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
- To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.
Noun
(en noun)- The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.
- The whole movie was a snooze .
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* catnap * nap * shuteye * slumbersuspend
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.