Sekirov Dictionary

suit

/suːt/

noun 15
verb 6
forms 5
phrases 9

noun15

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a set of matching clothes to wear together, usually a jacket with pants of the same color
- Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
(Pakistan) A dress.
A full set of armour.
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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.
- If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
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Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — 1785
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(slang, disapproving) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
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Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. — 1725
The full set of sails required for a ship.
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Petition, request, entreaty.
- Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Persea? Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any sute to me? Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to speake but three wise wordes. — 1587
(no longer used) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
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(no longer used) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne. — 1590
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(no longer used) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
- "You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table — 1837
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(no longer used) Regular order; succession.
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
(no longer used) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

verb6

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To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
- That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
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To be appropriate or apt for.
- The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
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To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
- The place itself was suiting to his care. — 1700
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To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
- will build to suit
- [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]
To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
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To dress; to clothe.
- So went he suited to his watery tomb. — 1601

forms

suited · suiting · suiteth · suits · suitest

Phrases with suit

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