Suit vs. Tuxedo

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

Tuxedonoun

A typically black formal jacket worn by men.

Tuxedonoun

The entire suit complementing and including this jacket.

Tuxedonoun

A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; - so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.

Tuxedonoun

The complete semiformal evening suit, including the tuxedo jacket, matching trousers, and black bow tie, and usually including a cummerbund; - the style of shirt worn with this suit varies, and the outfit may include a dickey.

Tuxedonoun

semiformal evening dress for men