Definition of suspension

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Suspension (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation.

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Holiday :: Holiday (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
Hanging :: Hanging (n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
Apnoea :: Apnoea (n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.
Armistice :: Armistice (n.) A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..
Sist :: Sist (n.) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.
Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc..
Lunacy :: Lunacy (n.) A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.
Suspensive :: Suspension (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..
Hypnotism :: Hypnotism (n.) A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body..
Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
Swoon :: Swoon (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away..
Catalepsis :: Catalepsis (n.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues..
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