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As nouns the difference between suit and marriage

is that suit is a set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman while marriage is the state of being married .

As a verb suit

is to make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

suit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suit ed men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
  • (pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
  • A full set of armour.
  • (legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
  • (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
  • Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
  • Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —(Alexander Pope).
  • The full set of sails required for a ship.
  • (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds and French playing cards.
  • To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — (William Cowper).
  • (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
  • Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — (Francis Bacon).
  • (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
  • Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — (Edmund Spenser).
  • (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
  • (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
  • Derived terms

    * birthday suit * bring suit * diving suit * flight suit * follow suit * out of suits * pressure suit * shell suit * suit and service * suit broker * suit court * suit covenant * suit custom * suit service * suitcase * swimsuit * tracksuit * zoot suit

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
  • To be suitable or apt for one's image.
  • :
  • :
  • To be appropriate or apt for.
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  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • :Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
  • *(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
  • *:Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • (lb) To dress; to clothe.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:So went he suited to his watery tomb.
  • To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to fit one's taste.
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  • (lb) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by to'', archaically also followed by ''with .
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:The place itself was suiting to his care.
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • *:Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
  • Synonyms

    * to agree: agree, match, answer

    Derived terms

    * suited and booted * suit up * suit yourself

    marriage

    Noun

  • (en noun)
  • The state of being married.
  • You should enter marriage for love.
  • A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal and/or social rights and responsibilities.
  • * 1944 , Tiaki Hikawera Mitira, Takitimu , page 123:
  • By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.
  • * 1990 , John Stevens, Lust for enlightenment: Buddhism and sex :
  • One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said,
  • * 1995 , Edith Deen, All of the women of the Bible , page 275:
  • The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
  • * 2009 , Charles Zastrow, Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People (ISBN 0495809527), page 30:
  • In an open marriage , the partners are free to have extramarital relationships or sex without betraying one another. Such a marriage is based on communication, trust, and respect,
  • # (often specifically) The union of any two people, to the exclusion of all others.
  • #* '>citation
  • "I have a patient right now whose marriage proved to be a tragedy. She wanted love, sexual gratification, children, and social prestige; but life blasted all her hopes. Her husband didn't love her. He refused even to eat with her, and forced her to serve his meals in his room upstairs. She had no children, no social standing. She went insane; and, in her imagination, she divorced her husband and resumed her maiden name. She now believes she has married into the English aristocracy, and she insists on being called Lady Smith.
  • My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
  • Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.
  • # (sometimes specifically) The union of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.
  • A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
  • You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
  • (figuratively) A close union.
  • * 2000 , Edmund E. Jacobitti, The Classical Heritage in Machiavelli's Histories'', in ''The comedy and tragedy of Machiavelli: essays on the literary works (edited by Vickie B. Sullivan), page 181:
  • And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.
  • * 2003 , Paul Mattick, Art in its time: theories and practices of modern aesthetics , page 105:
  • Above all, we will no longer have to feel qualms about the marriage of art and money. We will no longer have to wonder if it is possible to separate the esthetic value of an art work from its commercial value.
  • * 2006' August 9, Amy Scattergood, ''A wild dream in the wild'', published in the ''Los Angeles Times'', republished in '''2009 in ''The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (by Michelle and Phillip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price), on the cover:
  • But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
  • A joining of two parts.
  • (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in Texas hold 'em or melded in pinochle.
  • (card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
  • Usage notes

    * For a detailed discussion of marriage as an institution, with its traditions, its norms, and its accompanying legal rights and obligations, please consult the . * On Wiktionary, see also "common-law marriage", "open marriage" and "gay marriage".

    Synonyms

    * matrimony * wedding * civil union

    Antonyms

    * divorce

    Derived terms

    (marriage) * arranged marriage * Boston marriage * celestial marriage, celestial plural marriage * ceremonial marriage * child marriage * civil marriage * common-law marriage, common law marriage * companionate marriage * consummate marriage * defend marriage * earthly marriage * eternal marriage * frank-marriage * gay marriage * ghost marriage * group marriage * heavenly marriage * heterosexual marriage * homosexual marriage * informal marriage * inmarriage * institution of marriage * intermarriage, inter-marriage * Josephite marriage * levirate marriage * line marriage * marriageability * marriageable * marriage bed * marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute * marriage by habit and repute * marriage certificate * marriage counseling, marriage counselling * marriage counselor, marriage counsellor * marriage finger * marriage guidance * marriage licence, marriage license * marriage lite * marriage of convenience * marriage penalty * mixed marriage * mop marriage * morganatic marriage * multilateral marriage * mystical marriage * natural marriage * open marriage * outmarriage * plural marriage * polygamous marriage * postmarriage * posthumous marriage * pre-marriage * proxy marriage * pseudomarriage, pseudo-marriage * remarriage * republican marriage * royal marriage * same-sex marriage * sexless marriage * shotgun marriage * sororate marriage * spirit marriage * suspended marriage * temple marriage * traditional marriage * unmarriageability * unmarriageable * white marriage * work marriage * yogic marriage

    See also

    * adelphogamy * bigamy * cohabitation * divorce * matrimony * monogamy * one flesh * polyandry * polygamy * polygyny * wedding * (group marriage)

    References

    * Michael Weisenberg, The Official Dictionary of Poker (2000, MGI/Mike Caro University, ISBN 978-1880069523)

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