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- Suspension - n. - The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
- Suspension - n. - Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
- Suspension - n. - Of labor, study, pain, etc.
- Suspension - n. - Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
- Suspension - n. - Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
- Suspension - n. - Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
- Suspension - n. - Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
- Suspension - n. - Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
- Suspension - n. - A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
- Suspension - n. - 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.
- Suspension - n. - 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.
- Suspension - n. - A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
- Suspension - n. - 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.
- Lunacy - n. - A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism.
- Suspension - n. - Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
- Failure - n. - A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
- Reprieve - n. - A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.
- Sist - n. - A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.
- Baroscope - n. - Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
- Retardation - n. - The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
- Swoon - v. i. - To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
- Sleep - v. i. - To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
- Convention - v. i. - An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
- Hang - v. i. - To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.
- Respite - n. - Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
- Hesitation - n. - The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
- Suspension - n. - Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
- Strangulation - n. - Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
- Hypnotism - n. - A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body.
- Anchor - v. t. - To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
- Lockout - n. - The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
- Suspension - n. - A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
- Armistice - n. - A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.
- Catalepsis - n. - A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.
- Stupor - n. - Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
- Suspension - n. - Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
- Suspension - n. - The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
- Truce - n. - A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.
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- G737 ἄρτι - 737 ἄρτι - ἌΡΤΙ - - árti - ar'-tee - adverb from a derivative of αἴρω (compare ἄρτος) through the idea of suspension; just now:--this day (hour), hence(-forth), here(-after), hither(-to), (even) now, (this) present. - Adverb - greek
- H5542 סֶלָה - 5542 סֶלָה - סֶלָה - - çelâh - seh'-law - from סָלָה; suspension (of music), i.e. pause; Selah. - Verb - heb
- H8059 שְׁמִטָּה - 8059 שְׁמִטָּה - שְׁמִטָּה - - shᵉmiṭṭâh - shem-it-taw' - from שָׁמַט; remission (of debt) or suspension of labor); release. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H8436 תּוּלוֹן - 8436 תּוּלוֹן - תּוּלוֹן - - Tûwlôwn - too-lone' - xlit Tûwlôn corrected to Tûwlôwn; from תָּלַל; suspension; Tulon, an Israelite; Tilon (from the margin). - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn