Suit vs. Suite
Suitnoun
A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
Suitnoun
(by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
Suitnoun
A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
Suitnoun
A full set of armour.
Suitnoun
(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
Suitnoun
The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
Suitnoun
Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
Suitnoun
(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
Suitnoun
The full set of sails required for a ship.
Suitnoun
(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
Suitnoun
(obsolete) Regular order; succession.
Suitnoun
(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
Suitnoun
(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
Suitverb
(transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
Suitverb
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
Suitverb
(transitive)To be appropriate or apt for.
Suitverb
To dress; to clothe.
Suitverb
To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
Suitverb
(intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
Suitnoun
The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
Suitnoun
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.
Suitnoun
The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
Suitnoun
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.
Suitnoun
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 swēt.
Suitnoun
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 swēt.
Suitnoun
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.
Suitnoun
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.
Suitnoun
Regular order; succession.
Suitnoun
Someone who dresses in a business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire;
Suitverb
To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
Suitverb
To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
Suitverb
To dress; to clothe.
Suitverb
To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
Suitverb
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; - usually followed by with or to.
Suitnoun
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;
Suitnoun
a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color;
Suitnoun
playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color;
Suitnoun
a businessman dressed in a business suit;
Suitnoun
a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage);
Suitnoun
a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
Suitverb
be agreeable or acceptable to;
Suitverb
be agreeable or acceptable;
Suitverb
accord or comport with;
Suitverb
enhance the appearance of;
Suitnoun
a set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt
Suitnoun
a set of clothes to be worn for a particular activity
Suitnoun
a complete set of pieces of armour for covering the whole body
Suitnoun
a high-ranking executive in an organization, typically one regarded as exercising influence in an impersonal way
Suitnoun
any of the sets into which a pack of playing cards is divided (in conventional packs comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs).
Suitnoun
a lawsuit.
Suitnoun
the process of trying to win a woman's affection with a view to marriage
Suitnoun
a petition or entreaty made to a person in authority
Suitnoun
a complete set of sails required for a ship or for a set of spars
Suitverb
be convenient for or acceptable to
Suitverb
act entirely according to one's own wishes (often used to express the speaker's annoyance)
Suitverb
adapt something to
Suitverb
enhance the features, figure, or character of (someone)
Suitverb
put on clothes, especially for a particular activity
Suitenoun
A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage
Suitenoun
A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together
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A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
Suitenoun
(music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
Suitenoun
(music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
Suitenoun
(computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.
Suitenoun
A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.
Suitenoun
A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.
Suitenoun
One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.
Suitenoun
a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
Suitenoun
apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
Suitenoun
the group following and attending to some important person
Suitenoun
a matching set of furniture
Suitenoun
a set of rooms designated for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose
Suitenoun
a set of coordinating furniture
Suitenoun
a set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.
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a set of selected pieces from an opera or musical, arranged to be played as one instrumental work.
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a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank
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a set of programs with a uniform design and the ability to share data.
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a group of minerals, rocks, or fossils occurring together and characteristic of a location or period
