Definition: suit
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7
suit
n 1: (law) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of
law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the
family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit,
case, cause, causa]
2: a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers
or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color;
"they buried him in his best suit" [syn: suit of clothes]
3: playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each
set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards
in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what
suit is trumps?"
4: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a
woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a
brief and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing,
courting]
5: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or
rank
v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: accommodate,
fit]
2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me"
3: accord or comport with [syn: befit, beseem]
4: enhance the appearance of: "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Suit \Suit\, 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.] 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. Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. --Spenser. 3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship. Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. --Pope. 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. I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. --Shak. In England the several suits, or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed. --Blackstone. 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. 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. 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. ``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --Shak. 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, cubs, or diamonds. To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. --Cowper. 9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.] Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. --Bacon.
Suit \Suit\, v. i.
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually
followed by with or to.
The place itself was suiting to his care. --Dryden.
Give me not an office That suits with me so ill.
--Addison.
Syn: To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match;
answer.
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. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. --Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. --Prior. 3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.] So went he suited to his watery tomb. --Shak. 4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
Possessory \Pos*sess"o*ry\, a. [L. possessorius: cf. F. possessoire.] Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. Possessory action or suit (Law), an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory.
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)
suit 1. Ugly and uncomfortable "business clothing" often worn by non-hackers. Invariably worn with a "tie", a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain. It is thought that this explains much about the behaviour of suit-wearers. 2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a techie or hacker. See loser, burble, management, Stupids, SNAFU principle, and brain-damaged. [Jargon File] (1998-07-01)
Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
suit n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers. Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain. It is thought that this explains much about the behavior of suit-wearers. Compare droid. 2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a techie or hacker. See pointy-haired, burble, management, Stupids, SNAFU principle, PHB, and brain-damaged.
