different between mach vs suit

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /max/
• Homophone: mag (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
• Rhymes: -ax

Verb

mach

1. second-person singular imperative of machen

Middle Dutch

Verb

mach

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of m?gen

Pennsylvania German

Verb

mach

1. first-person singular of mache
2. second-person singular imperative of mache

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /max/

Etymology 1

From macha?.

Noun

mach m inan

1. waving, flapping

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

mach m inan

1. (Lublin) A type of folk dance.

   Synonym: wiater

Declension

Interjection

mach

1. An exclamation used when some action is performed swiftly.

Etymology 3

From Ernst Mach.

Noun

mach m inan

1. (physics) Mach number

Declension

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mach f

1. genitive plural of macha

Further reading

• mach in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/mach on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/mach

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (mak??, “fly”).

Noun

mach f

1. fly (insect)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mach m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Obsolete spelling of mah

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?x?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?max/

Noun

mach m (genitive singular machu, nominative plural machy, genitive plural machov, declension pattern of dub)

1. moss

Declension

Derived terms

• machový

Further reading

• mach in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/

Adjective

mach

1. Nasal mutation of bach (“small”).

Mutation

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