lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa
(noun) 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”
suit, suit of clothes
(noun) 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”
suit
(noun) 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?”
suit
(noun) a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
courtship, wooing, courting, suit
(noun) 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”
suit
(noun) (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; “all the suits care about is the bottom line”
befit, suit, beseem
(verb) accord or comport with; “This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!”
suit, accommodate, fit
(verb) be agreeable or acceptable to; “This suits my needs”
become, suit
(verb) enhance the appearance of; “Mourning becomes Electra”; “This behavior doesn’t suit you!”
suit
(verb) be agreeable or acceptable; “This time suits me”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Suit (plural Suits)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Suit is the 27277th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 886 individuals. Suit is most common among White (91.99%) individuals.
• ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis
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.
(pejorative, slang, metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
A full set of armour.
(legal) 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.
(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.
(obsolete) Regular order; succession.
(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.)
• bathing suit
• birthday suit
• bring suit
• diving suit
• flight suit
• follow suit
• shell suit
• swimsuit
• tracksuit
• zoot suit
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.
(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)
• to agree: agree, match, answer
• ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis
Source: Wiktionary
Suit, n. Etym: [OE. suite, F. suite, OF. suite, sieute, fr. suivre to follow, OF. sivre; perhaps influenced by L. secta. See Sue to follow, and cf. Sect, Suite.]
1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]
2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor. Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. Spenser.
3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship. Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. Pope.
4. (Law)
Definition: The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery. I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. Shak. In England the several suits, or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed. Blackstone.
5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced swet.
6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced swet.
7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes. "Two rogues in buckram suits." Shak.
8. (Playing Cards)
Definition: One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds. To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. Cowper.
9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.] Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. Bacon. Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] Shak.
– Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service; -- called also suit service. Blackstone.
– Suit broker, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of petitioners at court. [Obs.] -- Suit court (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe attendance to their lord.
– Suit covenant (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain court.
– Suit custom (Law), a service which is owed from time immemorial.
– Suit service. (Feudal Law) See Suit and service, above.
– To bring suit. (Law) (a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the plaintiff's demand. [Obs.] (b) In modern usage, to institute an action.
– To follow suit. (Card Playing) See under Follow, v. t.
Suit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suited; p. pr. & vb. n. Suiting.]
1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak.
2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. Prior.
3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.] So went he suited to his watery tomb. Shak.
4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
Suit, v. i.
Definition: To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to. The place itself was suiting to his care. Dryden. Give me not an office That suits with me so ill. Addison.
Syn.
– To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match; answer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
