(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.
Whistle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.
(v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
(v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
(v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
(v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
(v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
(v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.
(v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
(v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did not speak to Diego at the final whistle, losing so late in the game was too big a disappointment, especially when Romelu Lukaku was surrounded by three or four defenders and still scored.” That was something Martínez could agree with.
(2) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(3) There are currently five separate criminal prosecutions relating to official leaks under way, a surge in activity that national security experts say is a worrying attack on the rights of whistle blowers.
(4) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(5) Adrian Bailey, the BIS committee chair, said TTIP had the potential to help the UK economy and criticised the “dog whistle” politics used by both supporters and opponents of the deal.
(6) At the final whistle there were raucous celebrations in Gijón's El Molinón stadium and all over Algeria.
(7) The final whistle blew and virtually all the Scarborough fans ran on to the pitch to 'celebrate'.
(8) Some information regarding possible meaning of the whistles was obtained.
(9) 29 min: There have been so many offside decisions in this game, the referee's whistle is currently more aurally intrusive than the vuvuzelas.
(10) Come on.” The pair, who share a strained relationship born of regular clashes since Mourinho arrived in English football in 2004, did not acknowledge each other on the final whistle, once Chelsea had reasserted their five-point lead at the top of the table and condemned Arsenal to a first league loss of the season.
(11) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(12) 5.56pm GMT 26 min: Shaw whistles a low ball into the Liverpool area from the left.
(13) Only five major types of whistle emissions were recorded, all stereotyped and each characteristic of the animal emitting it.
(14) The USS Nitze shot warning flares, sounded its whistles and attempted unsuccessfully to communicate with the Iranian boats during Tuesday’s incident, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
(15) This article describes the use of the whistle and presents information collected from a nine-month prospective study of the endotracheal tube whistle.
(16) 50% In the dog-whistle rhetoric of Hammond and Theresa May, the archetypal contemporary migrant in Europe is from Africa.
(17) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(18) Manning and Snowden cannot have been the only US officials to have pondered blowing a whistle on data abuse.
(19) Hodgson’s methods, especially towards the end, were viewed as dated and a coach, as Roy Keane put it brashly a few weeks ago in a slightly different context, “who’s got the whistle around his neck and a clipboard” appears sought after.
(20) Southampton would have deserved the victory and it said everything that, when the whistle did go, the Midtjylland supporters punched the air and cheered loudly.