Suspect vs Suspension - What's the difference?
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To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
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, title= To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
To believe (someone) to be guilty.
To have suspicion.
(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
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(nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
* 2004 , Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream , Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005),
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile or car, which allow the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
(Scots Law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
(music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
(topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
(topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function's domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function's.
(education) The process of barring a student from school grounds by means of punishment.
As nouns the difference between suspect and suspension
is that suspect is a person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime while suspension is suspension (of solid particles in a liquid).As a verb suspect
is to imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.As an adjective suspect
is viewed with suspicion; suspected.suspect
English
Verb
(en verb)- to suspect the presence of disease
- From her hand I could suspect no ill.
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- to suspect the truth of a story
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (imagine or suppose to be true) imagine, suppose, think * (sense) distrust, doubt * (believe to be guilty) accuse, point the finger atNoun
(wikipedia suspect) (en noun)- Round up the usual suspects.'' — ''Casablanca
Adjective
(en adjective)- What I can do or offer is suspect .
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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- Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.
Synonyms
* (viewed with suspicion) dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, fishy (informal), suspiciousAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----suspension
English
Noun
(en noun)- suspension from a hook
- suspension from school as a disciplinary measure