单词 | suited |
释义 | suitedadj.1 1. a. As the second element in compounds: wearing a suit or clothing of the specified colour, material, condition, etc.In early use frequently poetic and often applied to things, animals, etc., which are personified or are metaphorically being described as clothed.Recorded earliest in sable-suited adj. at sable n.2 and adj. Compounds.blue-suited, flannel-suited, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing a suit or set of clothes suiteda1592 suit-wearing1885 suited-up1957 besuited1959 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > other slitteredc1380 tatteredc1380 accoutredc1540 suiteda1592 undressed1605 uniforma1626 full-dressed1731 tucky1748 underdresseda1784 costumed1820 décolleté1831 fancy dressed1836 winter-clad1836 sacked1847 evening-dressed1848 mufti1853 tailor-made1896 swim-suited1955 a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. G4 Phœbus put on thy sable suted wreath. 1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 11 Enter Livio fresh suited. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 42 Till civil-suited Morn appeer. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 85 Thro' the soft Silence of the listening Night, The sober-suited Songstress trills her Lay. 1891 Daily News 26 Dec. 5/5 A gardener..assisted by one of his fustian-suited fellows, is staking and pruning a tree. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 12 Nov. 9/2 The grey-suited brigade. 2015 V. Khan Unexpected Inheritance Inspector Chopra 242 There were many pictures of Ashok..grandstanding in front of a packed audience of black-suited lawyers. b. In simple use: wearing a suit; dressed in formal or business attire. ΚΠ 1971 ‘W. Trevor’ Miss Gomez & Brethren ix. 141 ‘Bloody foreigners,’ a suited business-man suddenly shouted in Oxford Street, noticing on the opposite pavement a slow-moving band of what seemed to him to be Tibetans. 1994 A. Hollinghurst Folding Star (1998) i. 9 When I came back from the lav I saw him making for the exit, his arm round the shoulder of the suited bore I'd escaped from earlier. 2. a. Of (a deck or hand of) playing cards: divided into suits; having suits. Chiefly as the second element in compounds with the number or type of suits specified, as in black-suited, four-suited, etc. ΚΠ 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 6 Dec. 46/1 (advt.) Patented five-suited pack of 60 cards. 1929 W. C. Whitehead in G. Reith Contract (1931) 202 The enhanced value of two-suited hands when played with one of the suits as trumps. 1949 C. W. Drepperd Treasures in Truck & Trash vi. 77 One other kind of card is the playing card: the suited cards, court and spot, used in all games from whist to fip-loo and from hearts to bridge. 1975 G. Beal Playing Cards & their Story ii. 11 Probably the most typical of the Italian-suited packs are those found in the Venetian area. 2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones ii. 54 Black-suited cards ranked high to low from king to two. b. Chiefly Poker. Of a playing card: belonging to the same suit as another; (of two or more cards) belonging to the same suit. ΚΠ 1984 M. Caro Caro on Gambling viii. 61 A four-card draw to a Jack returns 60 cents... Throwing a suited Ten brings it down 1.8 cents. 1992 E. Silberstang Winning Poker for Serious Player 88 Ace with any other suited card. 2007 Poker Player (World Ser. of Poker: Europe Issue) 49/2 I raised with J–7 suited. Phrases suited and booted: wearing formal or business attire; smartly dressed. Also in extended use: properly dressed or prepared for a particular occasion, situation, or activity. Now chiefly British.Originally in South Asian contexts; compare slightly earlier suited-booted adj. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1964 F. Ahmad in National Assembly Pakistan Deb. 1 1867 People have been..impatient in the name of great industries, impatient that we are to be suited and booted, without realizing that we have to take cognizance, we have to take stock of the entire requirements of our people. 1972 Times of India 12 May 8/3 It was good manners that made the man, he said; not just being suited and booted. 1989 T. Hercules Labelled Black Villain viii. 157 Some suited and booted bigwigs. 1998 Melody Maker 4 July 12/3 Camp television classic gets suited and booted for the nostalgia-infatuated Nineties. 2007 Blackpool Gaz. (Nexis) 31 Mar. Sean got suited and booted for his trek to Everest base camp in Nepal. 2010 A. Tibbs Advertising vi. 124 Unless otherwise requested, you probably won't need to turn up suited and booted, but think smart-casual. Compounds C1. With adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to uses of suit v. Phrasal verbs. suited-up adj. originally and chiefly North American (a) wearing a set of clothes or garment (such as a spacesuit, wetsuit, etc.) designed or required for a particular activity or occupation; cf. to suit up 1 at suit v. Phrasal verbs; (b) dressed smartly, in a suit; cf. to suit up 2 at suit v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing a suit or set of clothes suiteda1592 suit-wearing1885 suited-up1957 besuited1959 1957 F. Leiber in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Oct. 129/2 I was hand in hand with an octopus wearing an eight-legged spacesuit..and on the other side with a suited-up chick who sported a jet-black crest. 1973 Washington Post 21 Oct. 18/1 The suited-up usher who passes the collection plate at Sunday services. 1986 A. Madsen Cousteau xii. 148 Suited-up divers..jumped into the water. 2014 H. Hunting Clipped Wings 46 I spotted Sienna..chatting with a suited-up businessman. C2. suited-booted adj. South Asian smartly dressed, esp. in formal or business attire; cf. suited and booted at Phrases. ΚΠ 1960 A. M. Makhijani Sivananda I. 110 Chairs very rightly provided for such foreigners or oldish or suited-booted people who cannot sit on the ground. 1978 Times of India 9 July 11/4 There are suited-booted, camera-slinging tourists. 2001 T. N. Umrigar Bombay Time (2002) 208 What, would it bankrupt you to be nicely suited-booted sometimes? 2005 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 12 Feb. The modern Pakistan with its suited-booted leaders speaking in the international idiom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). suitedadj.2 Now somewhat rare. That is or has been made suitable; fitting, appropriate; fitted to or adapted for something. 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Hill & M. H. H. Certaine Qvestions in R. Hill Pathway to Prayer (new ed.) 133 The spirit was manifested in the set praier of Christ, which hee vsed as aforesaid, and in the suted prayers of many others his Prophets and seruants. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. i. 198 Raising the Quarrel up to a suited Degree of Rage and Spleen. 1825 ‘A Lady’ Outl. Truth iv. 86 When proper recreations are duly kept within their own bounds, they are not to be rejected; but in granting that they have a suited station, we must be vigilant that they do not exhaust time instead of embellishing it. 1964 Jrnl. Range Managem. 17 54/3 A specific charter from Congress to provide long-term, multiple use management of suited public lands would reaffirm and reemphasize the principles embodied in many earlier laws. 2013 Lang. Resources & Eval. 47 541 The development of the MoveOn motorcycle speech and noise database was motivated by the lack of suited speech databases in the British English language. 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