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Definition of Suspended

1. Adjective. (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment. "Droplets in suspension in a gas"

Definition of Suspended

1. Adjective. Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed. ¹

2. Adjective. Hung from above. ¹

3. Verb. (past of suspend) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suspended

1. suspend [v] - See also: suspend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suspended

Literary usage of Suspended

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"The defendant contends that at the time of the accident the plaintiff was suspended as a member of the order, and was not entitled to Its benefits. ..."

2. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1851)
"Mr. Wellborn moved that the rules be suspended, so as to enable him to move that the Committee of the Whole House be discharged from the further ..."

3. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"+^+1at^l balances the whole triangle, so that since the whole triangle may be regarded as suspended from the point on OQ vertically above its centre of ..."

4. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"acting on the suspended coil may be made nearly uniform within a small ... If the two suspended coils are similar, but with the current flowing Fig. ..."

5. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"On motion of Mr. Burlingame, and by unanimous consent, the rules were suspended, and said bill ordered to a third reading. Mr. Pitcher moved that said bill ..."

6. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Examination of the Quantity and Kind of Suspended Inanimate Constituents (Dust).1 § 137. Qualitative Demonstration of Dust according to Aitkin. ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"The defendant contends that at the time of the accident the plaintiff was suspended as a member of the order, and was not entitled to Its benefits. ..."

8. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1851)
"Mr. Wellborn moved that the rules be suspended, so as to enable him to move that the Committee of the Whole House be discharged from the further ..."

9. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"+^+1at^l balances the whole triangle, so that since the whole triangle may be regarded as suspended from the point on OQ vertically above its centre of ..."

10. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"acting on the suspended coil may be made nearly uniform within a small ... If the two suspended coils are similar, but with the current flowing Fig. ..."

11. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"On motion of Mr. Burlingame, and by unanimous consent, the rules were suspended, and said bill ordered to a third reading. Mr. Pitcher moved that said bill ..."

12. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Examination of the Quantity and Kind of Suspended Inanimate Constituents (Dust).1 § 137. Qualitative Demonstration of Dust according to Aitkin. ..."

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