Suspend vs Adjourn - What's the difference?
suspend | adjourn |
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.
To postpone.
To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
* Barrow
To end or suspend an event.
(intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.
Adjourn is a synonym of suspend.
As verbs the difference between suspend and adjourn
is that suspend is to halt something temporarily while adjourn is to postpone.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
* resumeSee also
suspension, suspendersAnagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----adjourn
English
Verb
(en verb)- The trial was adjourned for a week.
- It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
- The court will adjourn for lunch.
- After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.