Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hung from something: as, a suspended ornament.
- Interrupted; delayed; undecided.
- In botany, hanging directly downward; hanging from the apex of a cell, as many seeds.
- In entomology, attached in a pendent position by the posterior end, as the chrysalids of many butterflies. Also
adherent . SeeSuspensi , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Caused to
stop for a while;interrupted ordelayed . - adjective
Hung from above. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
suspend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment
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Examples
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Bambiso was then charged with attempted murder and was sentenced by the Somerset East regional Court in March 1987 to three years in prison, the term suspended - and five lashes.
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Justice Tennent sentenced him to 24 months' jail, with the balance of the term suspended.
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The man later said he was racing to the side of his sick wife - an explanation that received short shrift in court, where he was sentenced to three years in jail, with half of the term suspended for five years.
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The man later said he was racing to the side of his sick wife - an explanation that received short shrift in court, where he was sentenced to three years in jail, with half of the term suspended for five years.
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Pannam was jailed for one month, the term suspended for a year, and his licence was suspended for three months, a period that VicRoads would decide whether to add to his present suspension period.
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Father Pavone and his supporters have said that the media has "changed the story" and that he is not suspended, but what Priests for Life does not seem to understand is that his bishop's letter does use the word "suspended" and people in the media are not expected to be Canon Law experts.
Father Alberto Cutie: Missing, Gone Or Disappeared By The Church: Where Are These Priests? Father Alberto Cutie 2011
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Father Pavone and his supporters have said that the media has "changed the story" and that he is not suspended, but what Priests for Life does not seem to understand is that his bishop's letter does use the word "suspended" and people in the media are not expected to be Canon Law experts.
Father Alberto Cutie: Missing, Gone Or Disappeared By The Church: Where Are These Priests? Father Alberto Cutie 2011
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Such 'corporal' anti-Soviet propaganda had been a state crime until a week before his act, so he merely got some skin added to his head from his ass and five years added to his sentence, a term suspended on the event of the hundredth anniversary of Lenin's birth.
Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981
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At the time these decisions were being made, nobody had ever used the word 'suspended' and no one was operating under the context or concept of 'suspension.'
NYT > Home Page By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA 2012
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Gerson, in a brief interview Friday, said the word "suspended" was "a very reasonable characterization of what happened."
NYT > Home Page By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA 2012
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