different between suspend vs waive

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

English

Alternative forms

• wave (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?v, IPA^(key): /we?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v
• Homophone: wave

Etymology 1

From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from waif (“waif”).

Verb

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

1. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.

   If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

   1. (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
2. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
   • a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:

     […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others

3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).

Derived terms

• waivable
• waiver

Related terms

• waiver
• waif

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijan?.

Verb

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

1. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:

     ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

waive (plural waives)

1. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
2. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

   • […] what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?

Translations

Anagrams

• aview