Definitions for suitings

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suitings suit·ing

Spelling: [soo-ting]

IPA: /ˈsu tɪŋ/

Suitings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in suitings (giinsstu).

Definitions for suitings

noun

1. fabric for making suits.
2. a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
3. a set of men's garments of the same color and fabric, consisting of trousers, a jacket, and sometimes a vest.
4. a similarly matched set consisting of a skirt and jacket, and sometimes a topcoat or blouse, worn by women.
5. any costume worn for some special activity:
6. Often, suits. Slang. an executive, manager, or official, especially one regarded as a faceless decision maker.
7. Law. the act, the process, or an instance of suing in a court of law; legal prosecution; lawsuit.
8. Cards. one of the four sets or classes (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs) into which a common deck of playing cards is divided. the aggregate of cards belonging to one of these sets held in a player's hand at one time: one of various sets or classes into which less common decks of cards are divided, as lances, hammers, etc., found in certain decks formerly used or used in fortune telling.
9. suite (defs 1–3, 5).
10. the wooing or courting of a woman:
11. the act of making a petition or an appeal.
12. a petition, as to a person of rank or station.
13. Also called set. Nautical. a complete group of sails for a boat.
14. one of the seven classes into which a standard set of 28 dominoes may be divided by matching the numbers on half the face of each: a three suit contains the 3-blank, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, and 3-6. Since each such suit contains one of each of the other possible suits, only one complete suit is available per game.

Idioms

1. follow suit, Cards. to play a card of the same suit as that led. to follow the example of another:
2. suit oneself, to do what one wants to do or what is best for oneself, without regard for others (often used imperatively):

Verb phrases

1. suit up, to dress in a uniform or special suit.

verb (used with object)

1. to make appropriate, adapt, or accommodate, as one thing to another:
2. to be appropriate or becoming to:
3. to be or prove satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable to; satisfy or please:
4. to provide with a suit, as of clothing or armor; clothe; array.

verb (used without object)

1. to be appropriate or suitable; accord.
2. to be satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable.

Origin of suitings

First recorded in 1530-40; suit + -ing¹

Examples for suitings

"Now we must run for our lives, Tom," he said, suiting the action to the word.

And suiting the action to the word leaped for Peter, both fists flying.

suiting the action to the word, he raised his musket and shot the gobbler.

But I tell you frankly that I see no chance of your suiting me.

And the latter had no hesitation in suiting his reply to his own purpose.

suiting the action to the word she began on the hard knot at Marjorie's back.

It was a fitting backdrop for the Paris debut of his perfectly calculated, spare gray suiting.

"I'll sit down, with your leave," the prisoner said, suiting the action to the word.

We tried to make his suiting more Irish, to keep him a step away from the aristocracy.

suiting the action to the word, he flung his burden into the Slough of Despond.