suspend

«suspend» in Mova's school dictionary: to hang it from above: a lamp suspended from the ceiling — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (suspend, suspends, suspended, suspending)

meaning for a pupil

1) To suspend something is to hang it from above: a lamp suspended from the ceiling. tree →

2) To suspend something is to stop it for a while: matches were suspended because of snow. tree →

3) To suspend a pupil, worker or player is to stop them from coming to school, work or playing for a time as a punishment. tree →

4) (science) If tiny bits are suspended in a liquid or gas, they float in it without sinking or dissolving. tree →

sense in the lessons

School life: a pupil can be suspended (UK: «excluded» for a fixed time) for serious bad behaviour. Science: in a suspension (like muddy water) bits float and slowly settle; this is different from a solution. Everyday news: trains suspended, services suspended. Stories: «suspend disbelief» means pretending for a while that a magic story is real. Phrases: «suspended sentence» (law), «suspended animation».

examples

• A big chandelier was suspended from the ceiling. tree →
• All flights were suspended because of the storm. tree →
• He was suspended from school for fighting. tree →
• The player was suspended for two matches. tree →
• Mud particles were suspended in the water. tree →
• The bridge is suspended from strong cables. tree →
• The club suspended training during the holidays. tree →
• For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead. tree →

note

Noun forms: suspension (the act or a mixture), suspense (the tense feeling in a story). «Suspension bridge» = a bridge hung from cables. Do not confuse «suspend» with «expel» (to remove permanently).

In the corpora

• "Emergency measures" can mean that normal rights and laws are suspended (stopped for a while).
• Jake was suspended for three days after a fight in the dinner hall.
• When Jake was suspended for fighting, the school phoned his dad at the warehouse.
• When a child is suspended, a parent often has to leave work to collect them and look after them at home.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «suspend» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.