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suspend | x |

As a verb suspend

is to halt something temporarily.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----