suspended
part of speech
verb (past of «suspend»: suspend, suspends, suspended, suspending); adjective (suspended)
meaning for a pupil
1) Hung from above (a lamp suspended from the ceiling). tree →
2) Stopped for a time, not for ever (the game was suspended because of rain). tree →
3) Not allowed to come to school, work or play for a time as a punishment. tree →
4) (science) Floating in a liquid or gas without sinking or rising (particles suspended in water). tree →
sense in the lessons
In school life, a pupil suspended for bad behaviour; in sport, a player suspended for some matches. In science, suspensions — tiny bits suspended in water — and forces on a suspended object. In news, services suspended by bad weather. Phrases: «suspended from», «suspended sentence», «suspended animation».
examples
- A lamp was suspended from the ceiling. tree →
- The match was suspended because of lightning. tree →
- He was suspended from school for fighting. tree →
- The player was suspended for three games. tree →
- Train services are suspended until further notice. tree →
- Tiny bits of mud were suspended in the water. tree →
- The spider was suspended on a silk thread. tree →
- His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. tree →
note
Regular verb. Noun «suspension». A suspension bridge hangs from cables. In maths: a player suspended for 3 of 10 games plays 10 − 3 = 7 games. In science: a weight suspended from a spring stretches it.
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 «suspended» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.