different between onhold vs suspend

English

Etymology

From Middle English anhealden (“to retain”), from Old English onhealdan, anhealdan (“to hold, keep”), equivalent to on- +? hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian anhoolde (“to stop, persist”), West Frisian oanhâlde (“to apprehend, arrest, detain”), Dutch aanhouden (“to persist, continue, retain”) and onthouden (“to withhold, retain”), German anhalten (“to stop, last, persist”) and enthalten (“to contain, include”).

Verb

onhold (third-person singular simple present onholds, present participle onholding, simple past onheld, past participle onheld or onholden)

1. (transitive, rare) To hold on (to).
   • 1882, Keningale Robert Cook, The king of Kent:

     She leaped and trembled; still onheld his gripe, And gnawed her waning life.

   • 2008, An Apple A day:

     Because of economic downturn, I onhold my dream first and use my lovely office's notebook IBM Thinkpad T60P as my best friend.

2. (intransitive, rare) To hold on.
   • 1919, Middlesbrough (England). Education Committee, Proceedings:

     Resolved, That the Minutes of the Meeting of the Secondary Committee onheld 8 July, 1918, be and they are hereby confirmed.

Derived terms

• onholding

Anagrams

• hold on

English

Etymology

From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s?p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

suspend (third-person singular simple present suspends, present participle suspending, simple past and past participle suspended)

1. To halt something temporarily.
   • 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy

     The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
2. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
3. To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

4. To hang freely; underhang.

5. To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
6. (obsolete) To make to depend.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     God hath all along in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.

7. To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
   • 1633, Robert Sanderson, Reason and Judgement

     Whether good men should be suspended from the exercise of their ministry , and deprived of their livelyhood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.

8. (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
9. (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.

Antonyms

• (to halt something temporarily; to discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event): resume

Translations

See also

• suspension, suspenders

Anagrams

• send-ups, sends up, sendups, upsends

French

Verb

suspend

1. third-person singular present indicative of suspendre