(n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
(n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
(n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
(n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.
(n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.
(n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
(v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
Example Sentences:
(1) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(2) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
(5) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(7) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(8) This combined process decreased by 63% the decimal reduction times for the heat treatment when the organism was suspended in buffer and by 43% when suspended in milk.
(9) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(10) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(11) The Eurostoxx banking index was up 1.7% Shares in Italy’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, were suspended after falling 15% after the EBA revealed it was one of nine Italian institutions to fail the tests.
(12) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
(13) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(14) Intact suspended cells or lysed cells convert angiotensin I to angiotensin II, inactivate bradykinin, and hydrolyze hippuryldiglycine to hippuric acid and diglycine.
(15) Since early inhibition was not observed when E. coli cultures were inoculated with R17 bacteriophage suspended in phosphate buffer, early inhibition is not an intrinsic feature of R17 phage infection.
(16) The test organism, grown under anaerobic conditions in Trypticase soy broth, was diluted in buffered salt solution, and about 2 x 10(4) cells were suspended in 10 ml of an aerated broth.
(17) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
(18) Graphic photos of Said's injuries circulated online and became a rallying cause for activists opposed to Egypt's 29-year-old emergency law, which suspends many basic civil liberties and provides effective immunity for the security services before the courts.
(19) The conclusions are the following: (1) The storage of suspended erythrocytes at 2 degrees C up to 24 h or at 37 degrees C for 30 min did not change the water exchange time significantly, even if Mn2+ was present in the medium.
(20) The officer remains suspended and is expected to face a disciplinary hearing.