slovo | definícia |
suite (mass) | suite
- súprava |
suite (encz) | suite,apartmá n: Zdeněk Brož |
suite (encz) | suite,souprava n: Zdeněk Brož |
suite (gcide) | Suit \Suit\ (s[=u]t), n. [OE. suite, F. suite, OF. suite,
sieute, fr. suivre to follow, OF. sivre; perhaps influenced
by L. secta. See Sue to follow, and cf. Sect, Suite.]
1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]
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2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to
gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain
result; pursuit; endeavor.
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Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
--Spenser.
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3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in
marriage; courtship.
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Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end. --Pope.
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4. (Law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an
action or process for the recovery of a right or claim;
legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of
right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal
suit; a suit in chancery.
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I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. --Shak.
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In England the several suits, or remedial
instruments of justice, are distinguished into three
kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.
--Blackstone.
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5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants
or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a
prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; --
often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
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6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the
individual objects, collectively considered, which
constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions,
etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
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7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary
to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of
things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a
suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes; a
three-piece business suit. "Two rogues in buckram suits."
--Shak.
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8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which
constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen
cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades,
clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit
held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as,
hearts were her long suit.
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To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences. --Cowper.
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9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.]
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Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit
of weather comes again. --Bacon.
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10. Hence: (derived from def 7) Someone who dresses in a
business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire;
specifically, a person, such as business executive, or
government official, who is apt to view a situation
formalistically, bureaucratically, or according to formal
procedural criteria; -- used derogatively for one who is
inflexible, esp. when a more humanistic or imaginative
approach would be appropriate.
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Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] --Shak.
Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to
attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of
peace, and in war to follow them and do military service;
-- called also suit service. --Blackstone.
Suit broker, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of
petitioners at court. [Obs.]
Suit court (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe
attendance to their lord.
Suit covenant (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain
court.
Suit custom (Law), a service which is owed from time
immemorial.
Suit service. (Feudal Law) See Suit and service, above.
To bring suit. (Law)
(a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the
plaintiff's demand. [Obs.]
(b) In modern usage, to institute an action.
To follow suit.
(a) (Card Playing) See under Follow, v. t.
(b) To mimic the action of another person; to perform an
action similar to what has preceded; as, when she
walked in, John left the room and his wife followed
suit.
long suit
(a) (Card Playing) the suit[8] of which a player has the
largest number of cards in his hand; as, his long
suit was clubs, but his partner insisted on making
hearts trumps.. Hence: [fig.] that quality or
capability which is a person's best asset; as, we
could see from the mess in his room that neatness was
not his long suit.
strong suit same as long suit,
(b) . "I think our strong suit is that we can score from
both the perimeter and the post." --Bill Disbrow
(basketball coach) 1998. "Rigid ideological
consistency has never been a strong suit of the Whole
Earth Catalogue." --Bruce Sterling (The Hacker
Crackdown, 1994)
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Suite (gcide) | Suite \Suite\, n. [F. See Suit, n.]
1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished
personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n.,
5.
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2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of
things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of
rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.
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Mr. Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon
the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a
suite of rooms till they came to a private door into
the library. --Boswell.
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3. (Mus.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of
the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series
of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance
rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some
composers of the present day affect the suite form.
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suite (wn) | suite
n 1: a musical composition of several movements only loosely
connected
2: apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a
living unit (as in a hotel) [syn: suite, rooms]
3: the group following and attending to some important person
[syn: cortege, retinue, suite, entourage]
4: a matching set of furniture |
SUITE (bouvier) | SUITE. Those persons, who by his authority, follow or attend an ambassador
or other public minister.
2. In general the suite of a minister are protected from arrest, and
the inviolability of his person is communicated to those who form his suite.
Vattel, lib. 4, c. 9, Sec. 120. See 1 Dall. 177; Baldw. 240; and Ambassador.
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| podobné slovo | definícia |
suite (mass) | suite
- súprava |
suited (mass) | suited
- vhodný |
diningroom suite (encz) | diningroom suite, n: |
ill-suited (encz) | ill-suited,nepatřičný Jaroslav Šedivý |
livingroom suite (encz) | livingroom suite, n: |
suite (encz) | suite,apartmá n: Zdeněk Brožsuite,souprava n: Zdeněk Brož |
suited (encz) | suited,vhodný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
suiters (encz) | suiters, |
suites (encz) | suites,soupravy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
unsuited (encz) | unsuited,nevhodný adj: Zdeněk Brožunsuited,nevyhovující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
suite of integrated infrared countermeasures (army) (czen) | Suite of Integrated Infrared Countermeasures (Army),SIIRCM[zkr.]
[voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
suite of integrated radar frequency countermeasures (army) (czen) | Suite of Integrated Radar Frequency Countermeasures (Army),SIRFC[zkr.]
[voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
ill-sorted incompatible mismated unsuited (gcide) | mismatched \mis*matched"\ adj.
1. Matched unsuitably; grouped into pairs or sets with
incompatible characteristics. [Narrower terms:
ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated, unsuited; {odd,
unmatched, unmated, unpaired ] Also See: incompatible.
Antonym: matched.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Of very unequal ability; -- of contestants in a contest.
The less able contestant is said to be overmatched or
outclassed.
Syn: uneven, not fairly matched.
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Jesuited (gcide) | Jesuited \Jes"u*it*ed\, a.
Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits. --Milton.
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Jesuitess (gcide) | Jesuitess \Jes"u*it*ess\, n. [Cf. F. J['e]suitesse.] (R. C.
Hist.)
One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the
Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633. Jesuitic |
Nonsuited (gcide) | Nonsuit \Non"suit`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nonsuited; p. pr. &
vb. n. Nonsuiting.] (Law)
To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having
dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it
up. "When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited."
--Z. Swift.
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suite (gcide) | Suit \Suit\ (s[=u]t), n. [OE. suite, F. suite, OF. suite,
sieute, fr. suivre to follow, OF. sivre; perhaps influenced
by L. secta. See Sue to follow, and cf. Sect, Suite.]
1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]
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2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to
gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain
result; pursuit; endeavor.
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Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
--Spenser.
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3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in
marriage; courtship.
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Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end. --Pope.
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4. (Law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an
action or process for the recovery of a right or claim;
legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of
right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal
suit; a suit in chancery.
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I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. --Shak.
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In England the several suits, or remedial
instruments of justice, are distinguished into three
kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.
--Blackstone.
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5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants
or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a
prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; --
often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
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6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the
individual objects, collectively considered, which
constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions,
etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
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7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary
to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of
things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a
suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes; a
three-piece business suit. "Two rogues in buckram suits."
--Shak.
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8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which
constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen
cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades,
clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit
held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as,
hearts were her long suit.
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To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences. --Cowper.
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9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.]
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Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit
of weather comes again. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
10. Hence: (derived from def 7) Someone who dresses in a
business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire;
specifically, a person, such as business executive, or
government official, who is apt to view a situation
formalistically, bureaucratically, or according to formal
procedural criteria; -- used derogatively for one who is
inflexible, esp. when a more humanistic or imaginative
approach would be appropriate.
[1913 Webster]
Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] --Shak.
Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to
attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of
peace, and in war to follow them and do military service;
-- called also suit service. --Blackstone.
Suit broker, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of
petitioners at court. [Obs.]
Suit court (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe
attendance to their lord.
Suit covenant (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain
court.
Suit custom (Law), a service which is owed from time
immemorial.
Suit service. (Feudal Law) See Suit and service, above.
To bring suit. (Law)
(a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the
plaintiff's demand. [Obs.]
(b) In modern usage, to institute an action.
To follow suit.
(a) (Card Playing) See under Follow, v. t.
(b) To mimic the action of another person; to perform an
action similar to what has preceded; as, when she
walked in, John left the room and his wife followed
suit.
long suit
(a) (Card Playing) the suit[8] of which a player has the
largest number of cards in his hand; as, his long
suit was clubs, but his partner insisted on making
hearts trumps.. Hence: [fig.] that quality or
capability which is a person's best asset; as, we
could see from the mess in his room that neatness was
not his long suit.
strong suit same as long suit,
(b) . "I think our strong suit is that we can score from
both the perimeter and the post." --Bill Disbrow
(basketball coach) 1998. "Rigid ideological
consistency has never been a strong suit of the Whole
Earth Catalogue." --Bruce Sterling (The Hacker
Crackdown, 1994)
[1913 Webster +PJC]Suite \Suite\, n. [F. See Suit, n.]
1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished
personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n.,
5.
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2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of
things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of
rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.
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Mr. Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon
the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a
suite of rooms till they came to a private door into
the library. --Boswell.
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3. (Mus.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of
the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series
of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance
rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some
composers of the present day affect the suite form.
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Suited (gcide) | Suit \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suited; p. pr. & vb. n.
Suiting.]
1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit
the action to the word. --Shak.
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2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
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Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
--Dryden.
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Raise her notes to that sublime degree
Which suits song of piety and thee. --Prior.
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3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.]
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So went he suited to his watery tomb. --Shak.
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4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his
place; to suit one's taste.
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Unsuited (gcide) | Unsuited \Unsuited\
See suited. |
bedroom suite (wn) | bedroom suite
n 1: a suite of furniture for the bedroom [syn: bedroom suite,
bedroom set] |
diningroom suite (wn) | diningroom suite
n 1: a suite of furniture for the dining room [syn: {diningroom
suite}, diningroom set] |
livingroom suite (wn) | livingroom suite
n 1: a suite of furniture for the living room [syn: {livingroom
suite}, livingroom set] |
suite (wn) | suite
n 1: a musical composition of several movements only loosely
connected
2: apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a
living unit (as in a hotel) [syn: suite, rooms]
3: the group following and attending to some important person
[syn: cortege, retinue, suite, entourage]
4: a matching set of furniture |
suited (wn) | suited
adj 1: meant or adapted for an occasion or use; "a tractor
suitable (or fit) for heavy duty"; "not an appropriate
(or fit) time for flippancy" [syn: suitable, suited]
2: outfitted or supplied with clothing; "recruits suited in
green" |
unsuited (wn) | unsuited
adj 1: not easy to combine harmoniously [syn: ill-sorted,
incompatible, mismated, unsuited] |
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