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Suit can be a verb or a noun.
suit used as a verb:
- To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
- To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
"Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. — John Dryden." - To dress; to clothe.
"So went he suited to his watery tomb. —Shakespeare." - To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
- To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by with or to.
"The place itself was suiting to his care. — John Dryden."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
suit used as a noun:
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers, or a similar outfit for a woman.
"Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding." - A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boilersuit, protective suit
- A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
"Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department." - A full set of armour.
- 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.
"If you take my advice, you'll file suit against him immediately." - The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
"Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Alexander Pope." - The full set of sails required for a ship.
- 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.
"To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — William Cowper." - Regular order; succession.
"Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — Francis Bacon." - The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
"Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — Edmund Spenser." - A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is suit?
- Verb usage: Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. — John Dryden.
- Verb usage: Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. — Matthew Prior.
- Verb usage: So went he suited to his watery tomb. —Shakespeare.
- Verb usage: The place itself was suiting to his care. — John Dryden.
- Verb usage: Give me not an office That suits with me so ill. — Joseph Addison.
- Noun usage: Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
- Noun usage: Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
- Noun usage: If you take my advice, you'll file suit against him immediately.
- Noun usage: Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Alexander Pope.
- Noun usage: To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — William Cowper.
- Noun usage: Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — Francis Bacon.
- Noun usage: Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — Edmund Spenser.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of suit are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of suit, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
