Suspension vs Forfeit - What's the difference?
suspension | forfeit |
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.
A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
* Shakespeare
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
* Ld. Berners
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
To fail to keep an obligation.
* Shakespeare
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
As nouns the difference between suspension and forfeit
is that suspension is suspension (of solid particles in a liquid) while forfeit is a penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.As a verb forfeit is
to suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance.As an adjective forfeit is
lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.suspension
English
Noun
(en noun)- suspension from a hook
- suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
Synonyms
* delay, interruption, intermission, stopDerived terms
* *forfeit
English
Noun
(en noun)- That he our deadly forfeit should release'' (John Milton, ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity , 1629)
- He who murders pays the forfeit of his own life.
- Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal / Remit thy other forfeits .
- Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
- to seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit
Verb
(en verb)- He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
- Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game.
- I will have the heart of him if he forfeit .
Usage notes
* Very rarely, forfeit is used as the past tense form and past participle (i.e., the past tense forms and the present tense form are homographs).Synonyms
* (lose a contest) capitulate, surrender * (voluntarily give up) forgo, withgoDerived terms
* forfeits * nonforfeited * nonforfeiting * nonforfeitureAdjective
(-)- thy wealth being forfeit to the state
- to tread the forfeit paradise
