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Definition: SUSPENDING |
SUSPENDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Suspend |
Date "SUSPENDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Crosswords: SUSPENDING |
| English words defined with "SUSPENDING": Apositic ♦ butcher bird ♦ dangling, davit ♦ emulsified ♦ hanging, hook ♦ intermission ♦ lead tree, loggerhead shrike ♦ northern butcher bird ♦ Oueen-post ♦ probate ♦ Suspensation, suspension. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SUSPENDING": adjuvant-type test, ANODIZER ♦ cable drill, control code ♦ dispersing agent, distributing agent ♦ Hindlimb Suspension ♦ lining sight ♦ Methylcellulose ♦ overturning skip ♦ paper clay, peptizator, peptizer, peptizing agent ♦ scan path, string survey, SUPERVISOR, ACOUSTICAL TILE CARPENTERS ♦ white-metal corrosion proofer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SUSPENDING": Suspend. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm suspending her for two days. (Life's Work; writing credit: Warren Bell; Alana Burgi) | |
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Civil Liberties | Congo | There have been no reports of the Government suspending or dissolving a religious group since 1990, when the Government suspended its recognition of Jehovah's Witnesses; that suspension subsequently was reversed by a court. (references) |
Thailand | The police, have authority under the law to issue written warnings or orders suspending the publication or distribution of printed materials considered offensive to public morals; however, they did not use it to restrict the publication or distribution of religious literature during the year. (references) | |
Belarus | The regime restricted freedom of the press in many ways, including: Using the libel laws, limiting foreign funding, pressuring businesses not to advertise with independent media, limiting their access to newsprint, denying accreditation to critical journalists, outright censorship, restricting the import of media related materials, temporarily suspending opposition periodicals, bringing legal actions against the main independent publishing house, and detaining individuals seeking to distribute opposition newspapers. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | Neither Abacha nor Abubakar lifted the decree suspending the 1979 constitution, and the 1989 constitution was not implemented. (references) |
Colombia | The Colombian Government and ELN, after suspending talks in 2001 have resumed discussions aimed at opening a formal peace process. (references) | |
Romania | Since 1991, Romania's legislation has seesawed between granting, amending and suspending investment incentives, while creating or ending special treatment for FDI. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | However, on December 17, the Government announced it was suspending the investigation. (references) |
Portugal | In January the IGAI disciplined the police officer involved by suspending him for 200 days' without pay. (references) | |
Morocco | El-Kihal alleged that security forces in the Gendarmerie of Taouriate (Oujda province) tortured him for almost 24 hours, suspending him by his arms for extended periods while beating his fingers and feet. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | The National Press Council was active in suspending journalists and newspapers during the year. (references) |
Indonesia | When the President appointed the Deputy Police Chief as Acting Chief on July 20, the MPR leadership convoked the MPR. A day later the MPR decided to accelerate the Special Session, which began July 21. In the early hours of July 23, Wahid issued a decree suspending both the DPR and the MPR and announcing that there would be new elections. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kuwait | The Amir suspended constitutional provisions and dissolved the National Assembly from 1976-81, and in 1986 the Amir effectively dissolved the Assembly by suspending the constitutional provisions on the Assembly's election. (references) |
Trade | China | Warehouses: Goods that are allowed to be stored at a bonded warehouse, for up to one or two years, are limited to: materials and components to be used for domestic processing subject to re-exportation; goods imported under special Customs approval on terms of suspending the payment of import duties and VAT; goods in transit; spare parts for free maintenance of foreign products within the period of warranty. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SUSPENDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 86.96% of the time. "SUSPENDING" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 86.96% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.78% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 92 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SUSPENDING": insulated suspending tiebar. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SUSPENDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 暂停 (intermit, Intermitted, Intermitting, suspend, suspended, timeout, time-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | suspensiv toldordning (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), suspensionsmiddel til glasur (glaze suspending agent), isoleret haengejern (insulated suspending tiebar), bundfældningshindrende additiv (antisettling agent, suspending agent), bestemmelse om manglende opfyldelse (provision suspending implementation), bæreevne (suspending power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | suspensievermogen (suspending power), stabilisator voor glazuursuspensie (glaze suspending agent), versterker (amplifier, amplifying device, enhancer, glaze suspending agent, intensifier, repeater, telephone amplifier, telephone repeater), opschortingsregeling (provision suspending implementation), ophangrek (hanging rack, suspending rack), geisoleerde ondersteuning (insulated suspending tiebar), douanewetgeving (customs legislation, customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure, tariff legislation), douaneregeling (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), anti-uitzakmiddel (antisettling agent, suspending agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ripustuskoukku (hanging rack, suspending rack), lisenssin keskeytysoikeus (suspending power), eristetty ripustustanko (insulated suspending tiebar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | suspendant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | suspendierend, beurlaubend (furloughing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανασταλτικόσ (suspensory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tirante isolato (insulated suspending tiebar), regime sospensivo dei dazi doganali (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), regime doganale sospensivo (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), regime doganale economico (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), elemento di sospensione del carico (means of suspending loads), dispositivo di sospensione (provision suspending implementation), appendipolli (hanging rack, suspending rack), antisedimentante (antisettling agent, suspending agent), agenti sospensivi per smalto (glaze suspending agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 休" (suspending performance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅうえ" (baseball all-star game, courtship, eternity, old acquaintance, old grudge, old relationship, reinforcement, relief, rescue, suspending performance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 중단 (Recessing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uspendingsay tirantes de fixação isolados (insulated suspending tiebar), regime aduaneiro suspensivo (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), poder de suspensão (suspending power), pendurais isolados (insulated suspending tiebar), gancho de suspensão (lifting hook), dispositivo de suspensão (provision suspending implementation), agentes desfloculantes (glaze suspending agent), agente de suspensão (antisettling agent, suspending agent). (various references) задерживать задержка (delay, time-out). (various references) régimen aduanero suspensivo (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), régimen aduanero económico (customs system suspending import charges, economic customs procedure), gancho de suspensión (hanging rack, suspending rack), elementos de suspensión de las cargas (means of suspending loads), dispositivo de suspensión (provision suspending implementation), cuerda de suspensión aislante (insulated suspending tiebar), agentes para mantener la suspension del esmalte (glaze suspending agent), agente de suspensión (antisettling agent, suspending agent), agente antisedimentación (antisettling agent, suspending agent). (various references) suspensionskraft (suspending power), upphängningsanordning för slaktkycklingar (hanging rack, suspending rack), isolerad upphängningsanordning (insulated suspending tiebar), isolerad pendel (insulated suspending tiebar), avstängningsåtgärd (provision suspending implementation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SUSPENDING" (pronounced suspe"nding) |
| 7 | -s p e" n d i ng | expending, misspending, spending. |
| 6 | -p e" n d i ng | depending, impending, pending. |
| 5 | -e" n d i ng | amending, apprehending, ascending, attending, bending, blending, commending, comprehending, condescending, contending, defending, descending, ending, extending, fending, intending, lending, mending, offending, overextending, portending, pretending, recommending, relending, rending, sending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, unending, vending, wending. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | abounding, astounding, banding, binding, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, compounding, confounding, corresponding, defunding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, expounding, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, landing, longstanding, masterminding, minding, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, outspending, outstanding, overfunding, overspending, pounding, rebounding, refunding, reminding, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sounding, spellbinding, standing, stranding, surrounding, underfunding, understanding, unwinding, upstanding, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-p-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pudginess, upsending. | |
-2 letters: dinguses, penguins, puniness, spending, unsigned, upending. | |
-3 letters: designs, dunness, endings, enduing, ensigns, ensuing, gunnies, gussied, niduses, pending, penguin, puisnes, sending, sendups, sensing, sudsing, sueding, supines, suspend, undines, upsends, upsides. | |
-4 letters: deigns, design, dinges, dingus, disuse, duping, ending, ennuis, ensign, genips, genius, ginned, gneiss, guides, guised, guises, gunned, gussie, indues, issued, nudges. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-p-s-s-u" | |
+4 letters: upstandingness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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