different between adhere vs suit

English

Alternative forms

• adhære (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English *adheren (suggested by Middle English adherande (“adhering, adherent”, present participle)), from Latin adhaer?re, adhaesum: ad (“to”) + haer?re (“to stick”). Compare French adhérer.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æd?hi?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

adhere (third-person singular simple present adheres, present participle adhering, simple past and past participle adhered)

1. (intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.

   Synonyms: cleave, cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere

   • 1905, Anna Botsford Comstock, How to Keep Bees Chapter 16

     The sure test of the presence of the disease is found in the dead body of the larva, which is dark and discoloured; and if a toothpick or pin be thrust into it and then drawn back, the body contents will adhere to it in a stringy mass, to the extent of a half or even an entire inch, as if it were mucous or glue; later the bodies of the larvae dry and appear as black scales in the cell bottoms.

   • December 23 2016, Victoria Neff in Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, The story of mistletoe

     Mistletoe is an evergreen perennial shrub that has female plants that produce white berries. These white berries are a favorite food of birds who help to reseed the sticky seeds that adhere to tree branches.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.
   • 1829, Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Chapter 20

     King Ferdinand adopted the magnanimous measure recommended by the queen, but he accompanied it with several shrewd conditions, exacting tribute, military services, and safe passages and maintenance for Christian troops throughout the places which should adhere to Boabdil.

   • 1913, William Stanley Braithwaite, A Foremost American Lyrist: An Appreciation

     She has conceived the high function of poetry as an interpretation and criticism of life, adhering to the canons of her beloved master, Matthew Arnold, and has proven her worth, and the right to receive and exercise the spiritual influence inherited from that great and austere poet.

   • December 13 2016, Secret aid worker, Secret aid worker: NGOs can be efficient, if it involves sacrificing staff

     But from then on, everything went full speed. A tight timeline was adhered to and it became clear that the organisation’s new direction saw no value in keeping or developing the talents it had previously hired.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     For the most part, Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.

4. (Scotland, law) To affirm a judgment.

Usage notes

• The verb is intransitive but often takes the preposition "to".

Related terms

• adherent
• adherence
• adhesive
• cohere
• deadhere
• inhere

Translations

Anagrams

• Hardee, header, heared, hedera, rehead

Latin

Verb

adh?r?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of adh?re?

English

Etymology

From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for sec?ta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s(j)u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s(j)ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: soot (in some dialects)

Noun

suit (plural suits)

1. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

2. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
3. (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

4. A full set of armour.
5. (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

6. (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
7. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
   • 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)

     Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
     Till this funereal web my labors end.

8. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
9. The full set of sails required for a ship.
11. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
    • 1785, William Cowper, The Task

      To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
      Her mingled suits and sequences.

12. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things

    Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

13. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
14. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• suite

Translations

See also

References

• suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)

1. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
2. (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

3. (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
   • c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock

     Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
4. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
5. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

6. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)

   Synonyms: agree, match, answer

Derived terms

• suited and booted
• suit up
• suit yourself
• unsuited

Translations

Anagrams

• ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i/
• Rhymes: -?i
• Homophone: suis

Verb

suit

1. third-person singular present indicative of suivre

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?su.it/, [?s?u?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?su.it/, [?su?it?]

Verb

suit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of su?

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English suit.

Noun

suit m (plural suits)

1. (Jersey) suit (of clothes)

Synonyms

• fa