Meaning

12 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

    suspension from a hook

    Aussetzung

    the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

  2. (countable, uncountable)A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.

    Aussetzung

    приостановле́ниеpriostanovlénije, приостано́вкаpriostanóvka, прекраще́ниеprekraščénije

  3. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Suspension

    взвесьvzvesʹ, суспе́нзияsuspénzija

  4. (countable, uncountable)Thus a kind of silt or sludge.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.

    Spannung

  6. (countable, uncountable)The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).

    suspension from school as a disciplinary measure

  8. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Vorhalt

  9. (countable, uncountable)A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.

  11. (countable, uncountable)A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.

  12. (countable, uncountable)The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.

    Aufhängung, Federung

    подве́скаpodvéska

    підві́скаpidvíska

    a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle

Examples

28 sentences
  1. I heard about your suspension.

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  2. Tom's suspension ended on October 20th.

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  3. Tom's suspension ended on October twentieth.

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  4. Tom said that he's appealing his suspension.

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  5. My suspension will end on October 20th.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
vehicle: system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile:
Русский
By meaning 3
temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation:
state of a solid when mixed with, but not dissolved in a fluid:
vehicle: system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
act of suspending or state of being suspended:
state of a solid when mixed with, but not dissolved in a fluid:
act of keeping a person listening in doubt and expectation:
music: prolonging of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows:
vehicle: system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile:

Origin

Borrowed from Late Latin suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre (

Borrowed from Late Latin suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre (“to hang up, to suspend”), from sub- (“under”) + pendere (“to hang, to suspend”), from Proto-Italic *pendō (“to hang, to put in a hanging position”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”)). Compare Anglo-Norman suspensiun, French suspension, Occitan suspensio.

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Forms

plural: suspensions
Singularsuspension
Pluralsuspensions

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
temporary or conditional delay:halt
Close in meaning

Word family

35 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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