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单词 to suit up
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to suit up
to suit up
1. Originally and chiefly North American. Cf. suited-up adj. (a) at suited adj.1 Compounds 1.
a. transitive. To provide (a person) with a set of clothes or garment (such as a spacesuit, wetsuit, etc.) designed or required for a particular activity or occupation; to dress (a person) in a set of clothes or garment of such a type; frequently in passive. Also reflexive. Cf. kit v.1 2.In passive use often difficult to distinguish from predicative uses of the corresponding adjective (suited-up adj. (a) at suited adj.1 Compounds 1).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > other
wimple?c1225
pricka1275
clothe1382
addressa1393
haspc1400
to-cloutc1430
shirtc1450
gownc1485
tuft1535
passement1539
kerchief1600
muff1607
inshirt1611
insmock1611
mode1656
costume1802
slop1803
shawl1812
cravat1818
sur-invest1827
frock1828
pinafore1843
smock1847
panoply1851
underclothe1857
upholster1873
fancy dress1878
sleeve1887
to suit up1912
crinoline1915
1912 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Jrnl.-World 28 Feb. 4/2 Last year the team looked like a bunch of rag muffins and the University and students should see to it that the Baker team is suited up in the right manner this year.
1945 M. H. Allee Smoke Jumper iii. 24 A man suited up for smoke jumping would almost as soon fall into the fire itself as into deep water.
1970 New Yorker 24 Oct. 140/3 Yale suited up sixty men, including four quarterbacks.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Apr. 66 (advt.) Dave Bloom and Sons will suit you up for all your active sport needs.
2007 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 9 Feb. (News section) 13 At 8am they came with a truck and suited themselves up, and by 8.30 they were pulling pieces off the house.
2019 @KaliSky_ 16 May in twitter.com (accessed 15 July 2019) For the skills work we were suited up with all the diving equipment & worked on figuring out the respirator & mask.
b. intransitive. To dress oneself in a set of clothes or garment (such as a spacesuit, wetsuit, etc.) designed or required for a particular activity or occupation.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (intransitive)] > in specific way > in specific clothing
to cover (one's head)c1340
boot1600
to be covered1611
to put on1611
robea1626
cloak1774
wrap1847
tuck1888
gown1896
flannel1919
to suit up1927
to dress down1941
1927 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 31 Aug. 2/3 We rested until 8:00 when we suited up for our first workout.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. i. 22/2 Jim Lyle headed for the flight line to suit up for a routine mission aboard one of the giant radar picket planes.
1978 G. A. Sheehan Running & Being xv. 206 He will suit up and get out on the roads.
2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 31 May (Style section) 7/1 We suited up in the sand and headed in, me on an 11-foot soft-top surfboard.
2. Originally and chiefly North American. Cf. suited-up adj. (b) at suited adj.1 Compounds 1.
a. transitive. In passive (or reflexive). To be dressed (or dress oneself) smartly, in a suit.In passive use often difficult to distinguish from predicative uses of the corresponding adjective (suited-up adj. (b) at suited adj.1 Compounds 1).
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1964 Investig. Assassination President J. F. Kennedy: Hearings before President's Comm. VIII. 251 This particular instance he [sc. Oswald] was suited up; white shirt, dark suit, dark tie.
2000 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Features section) 12 I nervously found Drew, who was suited up.
2005 K. George Winter's Tales iv. 167 Half-dressed, he does not think he can bear to ‘suit himself up’ for the evening.
2017 J. Markert Angels' Share ii. 23 Since Henry died, every morning after he suited himself up from wing tips and spats to suspenders and tie, he'd sit in the La-Z-Boy all day.
b. intransitive. To dress oneself smartly, in a suit.
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1971 College Student Jrnl. (Calif.) 5 31/2 The traditional assumption that it is desirable for staff members to ‘suit up’.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 May b5 When I get up, with the hours before I have to suit up for the office, I plunge into my housekeeping.
2014 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Mar. (News section) 6 Not usually everyday wear, it will be a fashion faux pas tomorrow not to suit up for Tuxedo Tuesday.
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