different between suit vs livery

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

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.

Alternative forms

• liveray

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?v.?.?i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?v.??/, /?l?v.?.??/
• Rhymes: -?v(?)??

Noun

livery (countable and uncountable, plural liveries)

1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 8:

     And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover ( an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovel hat; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.

   • 1996, Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

     By wearing livery, the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.
2. The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
3. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
4. (US) A taxicab or limousine.
5. (law) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
6. (law) The writ by which property is obtained.
7. (historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Keats

     Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.

9. (historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
10. An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
    • 1825, George Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey (edited by Samuel Weller Singer)

      The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar.

11. Release from wardship; deliverance.
12. A low grade of wool.
13. Outward markings, fittings or appearance
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2:

      When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,

      dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,

      Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,

      Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:

Derived terms

• livery stable

Translations

Verb

livery (third-person singular simple present liveries, present participle liverying, simple past and past participle liveried)

1. (archaic) To clothe.

   He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

Translations

Etymology 2

liver +? -y

Adjective

livery (comparative more livery, superlative most livery)

1. Like liver.
   • 2004, Anne DesBrisay, Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants, ECW Press ?ISBN, page 19

     We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.

   • 2010, Christopher Kimball, Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.

   • 2010, Fidel Toldr, Handbook of Meat Processing, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 35

     Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a livery flavor.

2. Queasy, liverish.
   • 2011, Dr Dorothy Shepherd, Homoeopathy For The First Aider, Random House ?ISBN, page 58

     The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.

   • 2011, Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame, A&C Black ?ISBN

     He felt fresh and buoyant. When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt livery for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run

   • 2014, Emily Hahn, China to Me: A Partial Autobiography, Open Road Media ?ISBN

     To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward, but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling livery, impatient, restless.

Anagrams

• verily