(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.
Unsuit
Definition:
(v. t.) Not to suit; to be unfit for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
(2) However, since peptide ligands are usually unsuitable for development as potent orally active long-duration therapeutic agents, considerable research effort is being directed to the development of non-peptidal ligands.
(3) This technique can be used to treat fractures unsuited for conventional rods.
(4) Normal biomarkers are inherently unsuitable in a positive search for disorder; instead one must either use abnormal markers or be prepared to search negatively, i.e., to look for and somehow validate the rare absence of a normal marker.
(5) Seven patients judged unsuitable for an operation were treated with an aggregated allogeneic antigen.
(6) Five percent of the forceps biopsies were unsuitable for examination; all excision biopsies were of good quality.
(7) These results led to the conclusion that the IFAT screening procedure, as carried out, was unsuitable for the purposes intended.
(8) These results indicate that the 'Imotest' is significantly less sensitive than the Mantoux test and is unsuitable for use as a diagnostic or screening test.
(9) In the courts the remarks of non-specialist qualified persons can lead to wrong decisions as can either unsuitable or wrong evidence.
(10) The carboxamide group is thus unsuitable as was postulated for raising antibodies which recognize the peptide bond.
(11) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(12) We conclude that s-creatinine and creatinine clearance are unsuitable measures of glomerular function during high-dose cisplatin treatment.
(13) Due to the large variations within and between days, the estimation of unconjugated oestriol in plasma might be unsuitable as a substitute for the estimation of urinary conjugated oestriol in the supervision of complicated pregnancies.
(14) The anterior superior iliac crest, the usual donor site for cortico-spongy bone grafts is unsuitable for the removal of large quantities of spongy bone.
(15) At this stage any attempt at definitive removal of diseased tissue would necessarily result in a larger dural defect at a time when local disease and systemic illness present unsuitable conditions for reparative procedures.
(16) Ultrastructural analysis indicated that Bands 2 and 3 were composed predominantly of membranes, although Band 3 was contaminated with mitochondria; Band 1 and the gradient pellet contained insufficient material and were unsuitable for ultrastructural analysis.
(17) Whilst this sensitive immunological test increases the yield of carcinomas, the high false positive rate makes it unsuitable for population screening for colorectal cancer in its present form.
(18) Unfortunately, a large number of potential compounds are unsuitable for use in dentifrices because they lack "substantivity", produce undesirable side-effects, or are incompatible with toothpaste ingredients.
(19) In this study, we have conducted a systematic investigation of various aspects of cell viability and function of isolated hepatocytes stored at 4 degrees C for 24 and 48 hr in either University of Wisconsin solution or Hanks' HEPES buffer, a control solution clinically unsuitable for organ preservation.
(20) It is concluded that heparin may be given intravenously in normal saline with benzylpenicillin, ampicillin, or methicillin but several other antibiotics were found to be unsuitable for concurrent infusion with heparin.