a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
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apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
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the group following and attending to some important person
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a matching set of furniture
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.]
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; a three-piece business suit. ``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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.
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.
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.
{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]
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.]
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; a three-piece business suit. ``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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.
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.
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.
{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]
The en suite panelled bathroom had a free-standing bath and sociable chairs. This was our self-catering home for the weekend, the house once host to William III.
Dukakis worked on his speech Wednesday after meeting briefly with Jackson, his former rival, to discuss the fall campaign. Dukakis sat in an easy chair in the bedroom of his hotel suite revising a draft of his speech with a pen.
On top of that Taylor Made, a seventeen piece conjunction of 29th Street and Horizon, performed a suite commissioned by the Scottish Art Council.
The suite includes offices for Reagan, Mrs. Reagan, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Secret Service, and an aide.
Bentsen said one of the last things he did before heading to the hall on Wednesday night was to gather his wife and children in his hotel suite and pray.
She'll have quite a view from the suite in Texas Stadium.
Local historians then suggested the second suite be named in honor of Col. Ephraim Williams Jr., the town's namesake and founder of the local college.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones plans to skip the sidelines during Sunday's home opener to entertain Elizabeth Taylor in a private, stadium suite.
But somewhere in there they mention the show," said Starr, chatting in a suite overlooking Central Park.
Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke was in his suite in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, keeping in touch by phone with his lawyers negotiating with Texaco at Pennzoil's midtown office.
Lewis L. Glucksman was named a vice chairman of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., marking the return of one of Wall Street's best-known figures to a securities firm's executive suite.
"I look back on my years as leader with satisfaction," the silver-haired senator said in an interview in his Capitol office suite last week.
It just goes on and on and on." When Mr. Gerstner took over RJR in March 1989, its executive suite was desolate.
Each former president receives a office allowance of up to $300,000. Reagan already has waiting for him a penthouse office suite in a Los Angeles office building.
He improvised a brief welcome, and aides said later he had left his prepared toast in his hotel suite.
He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Bush was barbecued early and often by the treasurer from the state where he has a Houston hotel suite that he calls home.
One man in a regular hotel room wanted a luxury suite.
Cathy Dean and Paula Vaughan found the money in a shoe box Saturday while cleaning a suite at the Residence Inn.
Fardos Mohammed el-Sayed, staying at the hotel with her husband, a newly married son and his bride, said the family had to leave their two-room suite in bedclothes.
On some of Mr. Colvin's West Coast trips, the company lodged him in a $605-a-night Beverly Hills hotel suite.
But their jobs are more secure than most, and they include plenty of interaction between the executive suite and the shop floor.
Jagger, his thin, wiry body coiled like a rubber band on a hotel suite chair, peppers his conversations with references to the Stones as "ancient."
"This has always been an oil country that doesn't think like an oil country," says Jorge Diaz Serrano, who went from the Pemex chief executive's suite during the oil boom of the 1970s to a penitentiary cell during the debt bust of the 1980s.
At the new Savoy I felt all this had been achieved very effectively bearing in mind the tightness of the site and the wish of the Savoy group to add on a fitness suite to the hotel as part of the rebuilding.
Henri Namphy is broke and will have to leave the luxurious suite he has occupied since fleeing here after a coup in neighboring Haiti unseated him Sept. 17, an official said Monday.
Special food carts are wheeled into the suite of the emir, who has appeared twice on television since the invasion but refuses all interview requests and rarely emerges.
The other is avoiding the temptation to move to a plush suite in town after a good performance like the Ashanti Goldfields operation.
Mrs. Marcos, who arrived Sunday, is staying at the posh Waldorf Towers in a suite reportedly costing $1,800 a night. Aides said the bill would be paid by Marcos friends they would not identify.
The Trumps later held hands as they ascended the stairway from the hotel's grand ballroom to a suite where they shared an Easter Sunday lunch with their children and in-laws, said a hotel employee speaking on condition of anonymity.
Atlantic Richfield's manager of political affairs, George Dunn, says his company paid $75,000 into a Democratic Party fund and spent an additional $20,000 or so running a hospitality suite at the convention site.