Suspension vs Dangle - What's the difference?
suspension | dangle |
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.
to hang loosely with the ability to swing
* Hudibras
* Tennyson
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, title= (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
To hang or trail something loosely.
To trail or follow around.
* 1833 , Miller's Modern Acting Drama
An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
(slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
A dangling ornament or decoration.
* 1941 , Flora Thompson, Over to Candleford
As nouns the difference between suspension and dangle
is that suspension is suspension (of solid particles in a liquid) while dangle is an agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.As a verb dangle is
to hang loosely with the ability to swing.suspension
English
Noun
(en noun)- suspension from a hook
- suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
Synonyms
* delay, interruption, intermission, stopDerived terms
* *dangle
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Verb
(dangl)- He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
- From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.
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- To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.
Noun
(wikipedia dangle) (en noun)- That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
- So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles , like tiny fishing rods.