資料來源 : pyDict
一套衣服;官司,訴訟合身,穿起來,好看;適合,適應適當
資料來源 : 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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
suit
n 1: 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 businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits
care about is the bottom line"
5: 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}]
6: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or
rank
suit
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; "This kind of behavior does not suit
a young woman!" [syn: {befit}, {beseem}]
4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: {become}]
資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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)