What's the difference between sue and suit?

Sue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
  • (v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
  • (v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
  • (v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
  • (v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
  • (v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • (v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
  • (v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
  • (v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Soon after the takeover, PFD creative director Sue Douglas, the former Sunday Express editor, left amid reports that the company wasn't big enough for "two alpha females in Chanel".
  • (2) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
  • (3) Public health officials planned to sue these results to design and target education about the benefits of early initiation of breast feeding.
  • (4) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
  • (5) Sue Capon, who runs Brokerswood country park, said everyone was still coming to terms with the tragedy.
  • (6) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
  • (7) Polonsky is hoping to sue Lebedev for libel and is seeking damages for defamation, his lawyer Andrew Stephenson has said.
  • (8) The law’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin of Indian Springs, said the measure would make the clinics safer, while clinic operators said it was an attempt to shut them down through a regulation they could not meet.
  • (9) In 2004 her action reached the US supreme court, which ruled that she could sue the Austrians.
  • (10) "If these things are not against the law we need amendments to the Equality Act", she said, adding that if they were against the law "we need to sue the backsides off people".
  • (11) Sue We’re the same people we were when we met as teenagers.
  • (12) He said he decided not to sue News International because he felt the only remedy was justice for the alleged perpetrators, not punishment of the press for the alleged criminal offences of a few.
  • (13) Sue Tibballs, chief executive of the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) , said she thought the Games could be a "genuine turning point".
  • (14) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
  • (15) 2010s: In 2012, Sue Ellen is a very different woman.
  • (16) The landmark case, brought by a small environmental group through the UK courts, will allow people to sue the government for breaching EU pollution laws and will force ministers to prepare plans for many cities to improve air quality.
  • (17) Acid-base terminology including the sue of SI units is reviewed.
  • (18) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
  • (19) Findus indicated it was ready to sue as the company announced it would on Monday file a complaint against an unidentified party.
  • (20) The return of a government headed by, for example, the centre-right New Democracy, would open up the possibility that Athens would sue for peace on the terms demanded by the troika.

Suit


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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/t.
  • (n.) 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/t.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Regular order; succession.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
  • (v. t.) To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to clothe.
  • (v. t.) To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
  • (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (2) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
  • (3) It is concluded that the present method for demonstration of aryl sulphatase activity is not well suited for microscopical identification of lysosomes in rat liver parenchymal cells.
  • (4) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
  • (5) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (6) This variability, coupled with the lack of extreme specificity in the secondary auditory cortex, suggests that secondary cortical neurons are not well suited for the role of "vocalization detectors."
  • (7) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (8) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
  • (9) Stimulus-response characteristics suggested that this system was well suited for a role in tonic inhibition of sympathetic activity.
  • (10) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
  • (11) CIE has several operational advantages over ELISA and best suited to laboratories with limited resources.
  • (12) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (13) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (14) These studies thus provide a well-characterized repertoire of MAbs that are well suited for potential clinical trials involving the radiolocalization and possibly therapy of human colon carcinoma lesions.
  • (15) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (16) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
  • (17) A test suite has been developed for evaluating hearing aids.
  • (18) Owing to its broad spectrum of action (covering both gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms and anaerobes) and its consistently strong molar action, mezlocillin is well suited as a beta-lactam combination component for intensive care patients.
  • (19) These design methods are suited for constructing the most efficient gradient coil that meets a specified homogeneity requirement.
  • (20) What we’re saying is the advertising is false.” Prosecutors are not asking the court to halt the company’s services while the suit proceeds.

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