different between fathom vs suspect

English

Etymology

From Middle English fathome, fadome, from Old English fæþm, fæþme (“outstretched or encircling arms, embrace, grasp, protection, interior, bosom, lap, breast, womb, fathom, cubit, power, expanse, surface”), from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”), from Proto-Indo-European *pet- (“to spread out, extend”). Cognate with Low German fadem, faem (“a cubit, thread”), Dutch vadem, vaam (“fathom”), German Faden (“thread, filament, fathom”), Danish favn (“embrace, fathom”), Norwegian Bokmål favn (“embrace, fathom”), Swedish famn (“the arms, bosom, embrace”), Icelandic faðmur (“embrace”), Latin pate?, Ancient Greek ????????? (petánnumi), Ancient Greek ??????? (pétalos) [whence English petal].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæð?m/

Noun

fathom (plural fathoms)

1. (obsolete) Grasp, envelopment, control.
2. (units of measure, now usually nautical) An English unit of length for water depth notionally based upon the width of grown man's outstretched arms but standardized as 6 feet (about 1.8 m).

   Synonyms: brace, (obsolete) stade, (Greek) orguia
3. (units of measure) Various similar units in other systems.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts 27:28:

     And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.

4. (figuratively) Depth of insight, mental reach or scope.

Translations

Verb

fathom (third-person singular simple present fathoms, present participle fathoming, simple past and past participle fathomed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To encircle with outstretched arms, especially to take a measurement; to embrace.
2. (transitive) To measure the depth of, take a sounding of.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To get to the bottom of; to manage to comprehend; understand (a problem etc.).

   Synonyms: fathom out, figure out, puzzle out, work out

Translations

Derived terms

• fathomable
• fathometer
• fathomless
• fathom out
• unfathomable

See also

• deep six

Further reading

• fathom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fathom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fathom at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fathom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspici? (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speci? (“watch, look at”).

Pronunciation

Adjective, noun

• enPR: s?s?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?s?s.p?kt/

Verb

• enPR: s?s.p?kt?, IPA^(key): /s?s?p?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

suspect (third-person singular simple present suspects, present participle suspecting, simple past and past participle suspected)

1. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
2. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

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3. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.

4. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.

Synonyms

• (imagine or suppose to be true): imagine, suppose, think
• (distrust, have doubts about): distrust, doubt
• (believe to be guilty): accuse, point the finger at

Translations

Noun

suspect (plural suspects)

1. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
   • 1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch

     Round up the usual suspects.

Derived terms

• suspectless

Translations

Adjective

suspect (comparative more suspect, superlative most suspect)

1. Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
   • In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
2. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
   • 2004, Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream, Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005), page 18

     Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.

Synonyms

• (viewed with suspicion): dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, fishy (informal), suspicious

Translations

Related terms

• suspicion
• suspicious

Anagrams

• cupsets, suscept

French

Etymology

Latin suspectus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.p?/

Adjective

suspect (feminine singular suspecte, masculine plural suspects, feminine plural suspectes)

1. suspicious; suspect

Derived terms

• suspectement

Usage notes

• The -ct- becomes audible in the feminine forms (as [kt]). It is one of very few adjectives in which two mute consonants reappear.

Noun

suspect m (plural suspects, feminine suspecte)

1. a suspect

Further reading

• “suspect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French suspect, from Latin suspectus.

Adjective

suspect m or n (feminine singular suspect?, masculine plural suspec?i, feminine and neuter plural suspecte)

1. suspicious, doubtful

Declension