Suspend vs Levitate - What's the difference?
suspend | levitate |
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 cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.
To be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity.
As verbs the difference between suspend and levitate
is that suspend is to halt something temporarily while levitate is to cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.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 ----levitate
English
Verb
(levitat)- The magician levitated the woman.
- The guru claimed that he could levitate .
