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Suspend vs Primage - What's the difference?

suspend | primage |

As a verb suspend

is to halt something temporarily.

As a noun primage is

(archaic) a payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship or primage can be (engineering|rare) droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).

suspend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To halt something temporarily.
    • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Suspend your indignation against my brother.
  • * Denham
    • The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
  • To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
    • to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
    (John Locke)
  • To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
    • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
  • To hang freely; underhang.
    • to suspend a ball by a thread
  • To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
  • (obsolete) To make to depend.
  • * Tillotson
    • God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
  • To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
    • to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
  • * Bishop Sanderson
    • 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.
  • (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

    • Antonyms

    * resume

    See also

    suspension, suspenders

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    primage

    English

    Etymology 1

    From primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
  • * 1818 , , The Political State of the British Empire , Volume 3, page 197,
    • By the bill of lading the ma?ter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accu?tomed.
  • (archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne) .
  • (Australia, New Zealand) An additional import duty levied by customs.
  • * 1932 , E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932 ,
    • The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (engineering, rare) Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
  • * 1883 , Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management , page 75,
    • Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage ; all others exhibit a slight superheat.

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