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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Suit \Suit\ (s[=u]t), n. [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}.]
1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]
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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.
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Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
--Spenser.
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3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in
marriage; courtship.
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Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end. --Pope.
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4. (Law) 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.
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I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. --Shak.
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In England the several suits, or remedial
instruments of justice, are distinguished into three
kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.
--Blackstone.
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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 sw[=e]t.
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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 sw[=e]t.
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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; a
three-piece business suit. "Two rogues in buckram suits."
--Shak.
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8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which
constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen
cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades,
clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit
held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as,
hearts were her long suit.
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To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences. --Cowper.
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9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.]
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Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit
of weather comes again. --Bacon.
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10. Hence: (derived from def 7) Someone who dresses in a
business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire;
specifically, a person, such as business executive, or
government official, who is apt to view a situation
formalistically, bureaucratically, or according to formal
procedural criteria; -- used derogatively for one who is
inflexible, esp. when a more humanistic or imaginative
approach would be appropriate.
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{Out of suits}, having no correspondence. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Suit and service} (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to
attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of
peace, and in war to follow them and do military service;
-- called also {suit service}. --Blackstone.
{Suit broker}, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of
petitioners at court. [Obs.]
{Suit court} (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe
attendance to their lord.
{Suit covenant} (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain
court.
{Suit custom} (Law), a service which is owed from time
immemorial.
{Suit service}. (Feudal Law) See {Suit and service}, above.
{To bring suit}. (Law)
(a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the
plaintiff's demand. [Obs.]
(b) In modern usage, to institute an action.
{To follow suit}.
(a) (Card Playing) See under {Follow}, v. t.
(b) To mimic the action of another person; to perform an
action similar to what has preceded; as, when she
walked in, John left the room and his wife followed
suit.
{long suit}
(a) (Card Playing) the suit[8] of which a player has the
largest number of cards in his hand; as, his long
suit was clubs, but his partner insisted on making
hearts trumps.. Hence: [fig.] that quality or
capability which is a person's best asset; as, we
could see from the mess in his room that neatness was
not his long suit.
{strong suit} same as {long suit},
(b) . "I think our strong suit is that we can score from
both the perimeter and the post." --Bill Disbrow
(basketball coach) 1998. "Rigid ideological
consistency has never been a strong suit of the Whole
Earth Catalogue." --Bruce Sterling (The Hacker
Crackdown, 1994)
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Suit \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Suiting}.]
1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit
the action to the word. --Shak.
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2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
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Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
--Dryden.
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Raise her notes to that sublime degree
Which suits song of piety and thee. --Prior.
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3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.]
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So went he suited to his watery tomb. --Shak.
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4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his
place; to suit one's taste.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Suit \Suit\, v. i.
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually
followed by with or to.
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The place itself was suiting to his care. --Dryden.
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Give me not an office
That suits with me so ill. --Addison.
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Syn: To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match;
answer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
suit
n 1: 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" [syn: {lawsuit},
{case}, {cause}, {causa}]
2: 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" [syn: {suit of
clothes}]
3: 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?"
4: a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits
care about is the bottom line"
5: 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" [syn: {courtship}, {wooing},
{courting}]
6: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or
rank
v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn:
{accommodate}, {fit}]
2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me"
3: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit
a young woman!" [syn: {befit}, {beseem}]
4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: {become}]
From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
suit
n.
1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by
non-hackers. Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device
that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain. It is thought
that this explains much about the behavior of suit-wearers. Compare
{droid}.
2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a techie or
hacker. See {pointy-haired}, {burble}, {management}, {Stupids},
{SNAFU principle}, {PHB}, and {brain-damaged}.
From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:
suit [suːt]
Anzug
From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:
suit [wumənzsuːt]woman's
Kostüm
From English-French Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-fra]:
suit [suːt]
complet; costume
être bon à; convenir
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