noun. The act of suspending or the condition of being suspended, especially.

noun. An interruption or temporary cessation, as of an activity or of the application of a rule or law. synonym: pause.

noun. A temporary prohibition or exclusion, as from attending school or enjoying a privilege, especially as a punishment.

noun. A postponement, as of a judgment, opinion, or decision.

noun. undefined

noun. The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into a following chord to create a temporary dissonance.

noun. The tone or tones so prolonged.

noun. A device from which a mechanical part is suspended.

noun. The system of springs and other devices that insulates the chassis of a vehicle from shocks transmitted through the wheels.

noun. A system in which minute particles are dispersed throughout a fluid from which they are easily filtered but not easily settled because of system viscosity or molecular interactions.

noun. A fluid, containing bacteria or other cells, distributed in a more or loss even manner.

noun. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; the act or state of hanging from a support; hence, the state of being held up or kept in any way from falling or sinking, as in a liquid.

noun. The act of suspending, or delaying, interrupting, ceasing, or stopping for a time; the state of being delayed, interrupted, etc.

noun. The act of refraining from decision, determination, sentence, execution, or the like: as, a suspension of judgment or opinion.

noun. The act of causing the operation or effect of something to cease for a time: as, the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.

noun. The act of ceasing to pay debts or claims on account of financial inability; business failure: as, the suspension of a bank or commercial house.

noun. Temporary deprivation of office, power, prerogative, or any other privilege: as, the suspension of an officer or of a clergyman.

noun. In law: The temporary stop of a man's right, as when a seigniory, rent, or other profit out of land lies dormant for a time, by reason of the unity of possession of the seigniory, rent, etc., and of the land out of which they issue.

noun. In Scots law, a process in the supreme civil or criminal court by which execution or diligence on a sentence or decree is stayed until the judgment of the supreme court is obtained on the point.

noun. That which is suspended or hung up, or that which is held up, as in a liquid.

noun. The act of keeping a person in suspense or doubt.

noun. In music: The act, process, or result of prolonging or sustaining a tone in one chord into a following chord, in which at first it is a dissonance, but into which it is immediately merged by a conjunct progression upward or downward.

noun. The tone thus suspended.

noun. In a vehicle, any method of supporting the body clear of the axles, as by springs, side-bars, or straps.

noun. Bankruptcy, etc. See failure.

noun. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency.

noun. Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation.

noun. Of labor, study, pain, etc.

noun. Of decision, determination, judgment, etc..

noun. Of the payment of what is due.

noun. Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.

noun. Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc..

noun. Of the action or execution of law, etc..

noun. A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay.

noun. The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.

noun. A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.

noun. A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

noun. The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.

noun. pleas which temporarily abate or suspend a suit.

noun. the points, as in the axis or beam of a balance, at which the weights act, or from which they are suspended.

noun. a bridge supported by chains, ropes, or wires, which usually pass over high piers or columns at each end, and are secured in the ground beyond.

noun. a short truce or cessation of operations agreed on by the commanders of contending armies, as for burying the dead, making proposal for surrender or for peace, etc.

noun. a scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.

noun. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

noun. A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.

noun. 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.

noun. The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.

noun. 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.

noun. A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

noun. 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.

"It's a phrase we take for granted now, but the term "suspension of disbelief" was coined by the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834."

bifi- lar suspension  critical suspension of judgment  eddying suspension  indagatory suspension of opinion  pleas in suspension  

pleas in suspension  points of suspension  suspension bridge  suspension of arms  suspension scale  

mechanical system  support  supporting  

Ascension  Laurentian  apprehension  ascension  attention  

absence  arrest  brake  cessation  delay  

abandonment  abeyance  abjuration  abjurement  abolishment  

retardation