suspend
verbeattesté dans les dialogues
- //səsˈpɛnd//
To halt something temporarily.
verbe
- 1
To halt something temporarily.
The meeting was suspended for lunch.
Suspend your indignation against my brother.
The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
- 2
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
suspending out judgement
- 3
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
- 4
To hang freely; underhang.
to suspend a ball by a thread
The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
- 5
To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- 6
obsolèteTo make to depend.
God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
- 7
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
Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
- 8
To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- 9
To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
Étymologie
From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.
Formes
- passé
- suspended
- participe passé
- suspended
- participe présent
- suspending
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- suspends