Suspicion vs Sp - What's the difference?
suspicion | sp |
The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
The condition of being suspected.
Uncertainty, doubt.
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A trace, or slight indication.
* (Adolphus William Ward) (1837-1924)
The imagining of something without evidence.
(nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
* (Rudyard Kipling)
* 2012 , B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)
(horse racing) Starting price.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 157:
Selling price.
(US, military, navy) Shore patrol.
(law enforcement) State police
Slow play.
(computing) service pack.
(law enforcement) superintendent
(Scientology) suppressive person
(biochemistry) substance P
, a state of Brazil.
As a noun suspicion
is the act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.As a verb suspicion
is (nonstandard|dialect) to suspect; to have suspicions.As a proper noun sp is
spanish (language).suspicion
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Alternative forms
* suspition (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion .
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
Derived terms
* suspicious * suspect * sneaking suspicionVerb
(en verb)- Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned , for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home.
- "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.
References
* (EtymOnLine)sp
English
===(en)=== (en noun)- He was an atheist, a rationalist, a medical student of no great distinction, an SP punter, a singer of bawdy songs, an acknowledged expert in matters erotic.
