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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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uniform
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: yo?o?n?-fôrm, IPA(key): /?jun??f??m/, /?jun?f?m/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ju?n?f??m/
- Hyphenation: uni?form
- Rhymes: -??(r)m
Adjective
uniform (comparative more uniform, superlative most uniform)
- Unvarying; all the same.
- Consistent; conforming to one standard.
- 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in 1830, The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker, page 313,
- The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.
- 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in 1830, The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker, page 313,
- (mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
- (chemistry, of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.
- (geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.
Usage notes
- As a description of polymers, the IUPAC prefers the term uniform to monodisperse.
Synonyms
- (unvarying): regular, stable; see also Thesaurus:steady
- (all the same): invariable, of a piece; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous
Antonyms
- nonuniform
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
uniform (plural uniforms)
- A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
- 1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book
- The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron.
- This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.
- F. W. Robertson
- There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.
- 1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book
- Uniform, the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet
- A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
- 1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse,[2] Macmillan, ?ISBN, page 265,
- Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.
- 2001, Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld,[3] Da Capo Press, ?ISBN, page 113,
- Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. […] He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”
- 2004, Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful,[4] MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ?ISBN, page 81,
- Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.
- 1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse,[2] Macmillan, ?ISBN, page 265,
Translations
Verb
uniform (third-person singular simple present uniforms, present participle uniforming, simple past and past participle uniformed)
- (transitive) To clothe in a uniform.
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin ?nif?rmis.
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /?y.ni?f?rm/
- Hyphenation: uni?form
Noun
uniform n (plural uniformen, diminutive uniformpje n)
- Uniform; a distinctive outfit. [from 18th c.]
Derived terms
- politie-uniform
Descendants
- Afrikaans: uniform
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /?yni?f?rm/
- Hyphenation: uni?form
- Rhymes: -?rm
Adjective
uniform (comparative uniformer, superlative uniformst)
- Uniform. [from 16th c.]
Inflection
Descendants
- Afrikaans: uniform
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
uniform m or f (definite singular uniforma or uniformen, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)
- a uniform
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
uniform f (definite singular uniforma, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)
- a uniform
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /u??i.f?rm/
Noun
uniform m inan
- (rare) uniform
Declension
Synonyms
- mundur, mundurek
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nif?rmis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u.ni?form/
Adjective
uniform m or n (feminine singular uniform?, masculine plural uniformi, feminine and neuter plural uniforme)
- uniform
Declension
Related terms
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin uniformis.
Pronunciation
Noun
uniform c
- Uniform; a distinctive outfit.
Declension
References
- uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (noun)
- uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (adjective)
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