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suit
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)
- 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.
- (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
- (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- A full set of armour.
- (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.
- (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- 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.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- (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.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- (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.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (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)
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (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.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
- (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
- 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
- third-person singular present active indicative of su?
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English suit.
Noun
suit m (plural suits)
- (Jersey) suit (of clothes)
Synonyms
- fa
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debate
English
Etymology
From Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuere (“to beat, to fence”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??be?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
debate (countable and uncountable, plural debates)
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
- (frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- (obsolete) Strife, discord.
Translations
Verb
debate (third-person singular simple present debates, present participle debating, simple past and past participle debated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]
- August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53
- He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
- August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fight. [14th-17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 15:
- ... wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
- To change your day of youth to sullied night
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- Volunteers […] thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
Derived terms
- debater
Related terms
- debatable
- debation
Translations
Further reading
- debate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- beated, bed tea, bed-tea, betaed
Albanian
Noun
debate m pl
- indefinite plural of debat
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.?ba.t?i/
Noun
debate m (plural debates)
- debate
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.
Verb
debate
- third-person singular present indicative of debater
- second-person singular imperative of debater
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.
Spanish
Noun
debate m (plural debates)
- debate, discussion
Related terms
- debatir
Verb
debate
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of debatir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of debatir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of debatir.
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