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| suit | 1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. 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. 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 . 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 . 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." 8. 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. "Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again." (Bacon) Out of suits, having no correspondence. Suit and service See Follow. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| suitability index curve | Graph that depicts the suitability of a physical habitat variable for a fish species or life stage, often assumed to depict the species' or life stage's relative preference for values of the variable. (09 Oct 1997) |
| suitor | 1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. "She hath been a suitor to me for her brother." (Shak) 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. 3. One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| suitress | A female supplicant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| anti-G suit | A garment with bladders that expand to apply external pressure to the abdomen and lower extremities during positive G manoeuvres in flight or on a human centrifuge; the anti-G suit is worn to prevent the pooling of blood and serves to increase the wearer's ability to withstand exposure to higher G forces. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| G suit | <physiology> Double-layered inflatable suits which, when inflated, exert pressure on the lower part of the wearer's body. The suits are used to improve or stabilise the circulatory state, i.e., to prevent hypotension, control haemorrhage, and regulate blood pressure. The suits are also used by pilots under positive acceleration. (12 Dec 1998) |
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lawsuit: 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" 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" 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?" be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me" a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" courtship: 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" befit: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!" become: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
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In playing cards, a suit is one of the four categories into which the deck is divided. Suits are represented by various symbols on the cards. In a standard deck of cards each suit has thirteen cards. In some card games such as bridge or hearts suits play a very important role. In other games, such as blackjack, suits are meaningless. There are various ways of ranking the suits. For instance bridge ranks them alphabetically clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, with spades being the highest. ...
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A playing card is a typically hand-sized rectangular (in India, round) piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. A complete set of cards is a pack or deck. Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cartomancy, and a number of card games involve (or can be used to support) gambling. As a result, their use sometimes meets with disapproval from some religious groups (such as conservative Christians). ...
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(1) a legal action, as in: They brought a class-action suit against the tobacco companies.
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completely acceptable, appropriate or adequate to (one).
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| suit | (law) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy |
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| suit | a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color |
| suit | playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack |
| suit | a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank |
| suit | a man's courting of a woman |
| suit | accord or comport with |
| suit | be agreeable or acceptable to |
| suit | enhance the appearance of |
| suit | be agreeable or acceptable |
| suit | armor that protects the wearer's whole body |
| suit | armor that protects the wearer's whole body |
| suit | a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color |
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