Ban vs Suspension - What's the difference?
ban | suspension |
(obsolete) To summon; call out.
To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.
To curse; execrate.
* (Spenser)
* (Sir Walter Scott)
To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.
* (Byron)
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prohibition
* Milton
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
(obsolete) A curse or anathema.
* Shakespeare
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian (l)
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
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 ban and suspension
is that ban is prohibition while suspension is the act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.As a verb ban
is to summon; call out.As an initialism BAN
is british Approved Name.ban
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bannen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
A new prescription, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
Synonyms
* forbid * prohibit * disallowNoun
(en noun)- under ban to touch
- Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
- He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.
- The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.
- ''France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
- The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.''
- The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.
- Hecate's ban
See also
* bannsEtymology 2
Noun
(bani)Etymology 3
From (Banburismus); coined by .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* decibanSynonyms
* dit, hartleySee also
* bit, nat, qubitEtymology 4
From (etyl) (term) (compare Serbo-Croatian .Noun
(en noun)suspension
English
Noun
(en noun)- suspension from a hook
- suspension from school as a disciplinary measure