Suit

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A set of matching outer garments, especially one consisting of a coat with trousers or a skirt, often worn on formal occasions.
  • noun. A person, especially an executive, who wears one of these garments at work.
  • noun. An outfit worn for a special activity.
  • noun. A group of things used together; a set or collection.
  • noun. Any of the four sets of 13 playing cards (clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades) in a standard deck, the members of which bear the same marks.
  • noun. Attendance required of a vassal at his feudal lord's court or manor.
  • noun. A lawsuit.
  • noun. The act or an instance of courting a woman; courtship.
  • intransitive verb. To meet the requirements of; fit.
  • intransitive verb. To make appropriate or suitable; adapt.
  • intransitive verb. To be appropriate for; befit.
  • intransitive verb. To please; satisfy.
  • intransitive verb. To provide with clothing; dress.
  • intransitive verb. To be suitable or acceptable.
  • intransitive verb. To be in accord; agree or match.
  • phrasal verb. To put on clothing designed for a special activity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A following; the act of pursuing, as game; pursuit.
  • noun. Series; succession; regular order.
  • noun. The act of suing; a seeking for something by solicitation or petition; an address of entreaty; petition; prayer.
  • noun. Especially— A petition made to a person of exalted station, as a prince or prelate.
  • noun. Solicitation for a woman's hand in marriage; courtship; proposal of marriage.
  • noun. In law. A proceeding in a court of justice for the enforcement or protection of a right or claim, or for the redress of a wrong; prosecution of a right or claim before any tribunal: as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
  • noun. The witnesses or followers of the plaintiff in an action at law.
  • noun. In feudal law, a following or attendance.
  • noun. A company of attendants or followers; train; retinue. Now commonly suite.
  • noun. A number of things composing a sequence or succession; a number of things of a like kind that follow in a series and are intended to be used together; a set or suite; specifically, one of the four sets or classes, known as spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds, into which playing-cards are divided.
  • noun. A number of different objects intended to be used together, especially when made of similar materials and corresponding in general character and purpose: thus, a number of different garments designed to he worn together form a suit of clothes; a number of sails of different sizes and fitting different spars form a suit of sails.
  • noun. Synonyms Request, Petition, etc. See prayer.
  • To adapt; accommodate; fit; make suitable.
  • To be fitted or adapted to; be suitable or appropriate to; befit; answer the requirements of.
  • To be agreeable to; fall in with the views, wishes, or convenience of: as, a style of living to suit one's tastes.
  • To dress, as with a suit of clothes; clothe.
  • Synonyms To comport with, tally with, correspond to, match, meet.
  • To please, gratify, content.
  • To correspond; agree; accord: generally followed by with or to.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable.
  • transitive verb. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
  • transitive verb. To dress; to clothe.
  • transitive verb. To please; to make content.
  • intransitive verb. To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.
  • noun. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
  • noun. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.
  • noun. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
  • noun. The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal
  • noun. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced swēt.
  • noun. Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced swēt.
  • noun. A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set
  • noun. One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit held by a player in certain games, such as bridge.
  • noun. Regular order; succession.
  • Word Usage
    "LUCKNOW: The long-awaited verdict on the dispute over the title suit of the Babri Masjid-Ram"
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