suspended
暂停,暂停使用,悬浮,悬挂
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- : to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- : to attach so as to allow free movement: to suspend a door on a hinge.
- : to keep from falling, sinking, forming a deposit, etc., as if by hanging: to suspend solid particles in a liquid.
- : to hold or keep undetermined; refrain from forming or concluding definitely: to suspend one's judgment.
- : to defer or postpone: to suspend sentence on a convicted person.
- : to cause to cease or bring to a stop or stay, usually for a time: to suspend payment.
- : to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect, as a law, rule, privilege, service, or the like: to suspend ferry service.
- : to debar, usually for a limited time, from the exercise of an office or function or the enjoyment of a privilege: The student was suspended from school.
- : to keep in a mood or feeling of expectation or incompleteness; keep waiting in suspense: Finish the story; don't suspend us in midair.
- : Music. to prolong into the next chord.
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Examples
Some fire pits come with grates that allow for cooking, but if you have one that doesn’t accommodate a grate, you can buy a steel tripod that will allow you to suspend a Dutch oven above your pit.
Only the day care’s food permit is temporarily suspended — but will be restored if Phillips complies with restrictions.
The actual business end of the telescope, where radio waves were sensed, was an instrument platform suspended high above it by cables strung from three towers.
An elevated walkway positions you at eye-level with suspended planes, functioning like a pandemic-conscious highway.
Far from comfortably suspended, due to the harness I planned to wear all night and the severe wedgie it caused, but suspended nonetheless.
They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with all but two and a half years suspended.
Time was suspended as the world watched and waited for news about the young, brave girl from the Swat Valley.
This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.
From the roof of the barn is a long loop of rope, through this the turkey is suspended by its legs.
Because the universe is governed by laws, and there is no credible instance on record of those laws being .