suit
noun/suːt/
Слово англійською: suit
Переклад suit українською: костю́м, ска́рга, по́зов (судова́ ска́рга), купа́льник, купа́льний костю́м, спецо́дяг, ли́жний костю́м, скафа́ндр
Детальний опис
- a set of clothes made of the same cloth, including a jacket and trousers or a skirt
- She was wearing a grey business suit.
- He is dressed in a formal black suit.
- They won't let men into the restaurant without a suit and tie.
- a two-/three-piece suit (= of two/three pieces of clothing)
- a pinstripe suit
- a set of clothing worn for a particular activity
- a diving suit
- a suit of armour
- His parents had bought him a new suit of clothes for the occasion.
- any of the four sets that form a pack of cards
- The suits are called hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades.
Wordfinder- ace
- card
- cut
- deal
- gambling
- hand
- jack
- shuffle
- suit
- trump
- (also lawsuit)a claim or complaint against somebody that a person or an organization can make in court
- to file/bring a suit against somebody
- a divorce suit
- [usually plural] (informal) a person with an important job as a manager in a company or organization, especially one who is thought to work mainly with financial matters or to have a lot of influence
- We can leave the detailed negotiations to the suits.
- He’s a ‘suit’, not a ‘creative’.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French siwte, from a feminine past participle of a Romance verb based on Latin sequi ‘follow’. Early senses included ‘attendance at a court’ and ‘legal process’; senses (1) to (3) derive from an earlier meaning ‘set of things to be used together’. The verb sense ‘make appropriate’ dates from the late 16th cent.
Idioms
be somebody’s strong suit
- to be a subject that somebody knows a lot about
- I'm afraid geography is not my strong suit.
follow suit
- (in card games) to play a card of the same suit that has just been played
- to act or behave in the way that somebody else has just done
in your birthday suit
- (humorous) not wearing any clothes