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Suspend vs Hung - What's the difference?

suspend | hung |

As verbs the difference between suspend and hung

is that suspend is to halt something temporarily while hung is (hang).

As an adjective hung is

suspended by hanging.

suspend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To halt something temporarily.
    • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Suspend your indignation against my brother.
  • * Denham
    • The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear.
  • To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
    • to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief
    (John Locke)
  • To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
    • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program
  • To hang freely; underhang.
    • to suspend a ball by a thread
  • To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
  • (obsolete) To make to depend.
  • * Tillotson
    • God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
  • To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
    • to suspend''' a student from college; to '''suspend a member of a club
  • * Bishop Sanderson
    • Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
  • (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

    • Antonyms

    * resume

    See also

    suspension, suspenders

    Anagrams

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    hung

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hang)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suspended by hanging.
  • Having hanging additions or appendages.
  • (legal) Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
  • Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
  • (computing, colloquial) Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
  • Having large genitals (often preceded by an adverb, e.g. well hung).
    • Men with big feet tend to be hung like a horse.
  • having a penis of a certain size

    • Synonyms

    * (endowed with a large penis) horse-hung, hung like a horse/hung like a donkey, well-hung, well-endowed

    Related terms

    * hanged * hung parliament

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