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suit: a set of clothes; legal
action
suite: number of items making
up a set, series, or sequence
Synonym:
The noun suit has 6 senses
(first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (390) lawsuit, suit, case,
cause, causa -- (a
comprehensive term for any
proceeding in a court of law
whereby an individual seeks a
legal remedy; "the family
brought suit against the
landlord")
2. (209) suit, suit of clothes
-- (a set of garments (usually
including a jacket and
trousers or skirt) for
outerwear all of the same
fabric and color; "they buried
him in his best suit")
3. (3) suit -- (playing card
in any of four sets of 13
cards in a pack; each set has
its own symbol and color; "a
flush is five cards in the
same suit"; "in bridge you
must follow suit"; "what suit
is trumps?")
4. suit -- (a businessman
dressed in a business suit;
"all the suits care about is
the bottom line")
5. courtship, wooing,
courting, suit -- (a man's
courting of a woman; seeking
the affections of a woman
(usually with the hope of
marriage); "its was a brief
and intense courtship")
6. suit -- (a petition or
appeal made to a person of
superior status or rank)
The verb suit has 4 senses
(first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (7) suit, accommodate, fit
-- (be agreeable or acceptable
to; "This suits my needs")
2. (1) suit -- (be agreeable
or acceptable; "This time
suits me")
3. (1) befit, suit, beseem --
(accord or comport with; "This
kind of behavior does not suit
a young woman!")
4. become, suit -- (enhance
the appearance of; "Mourning
becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!") |
