Dangle vs. Suspend

Dangleverb

(intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.

‘His feet would dangle in the water.’;

Suspendverb

To halt something temporarily.

‘The meeting was suspended for lunch.’;

Dangleverb

The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.

‘He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.’;

Suspendverb

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

‘to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief’;

Dangleverb

(transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.

‘I like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water.’;

Suspendverb

To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

‘to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program’;

Dangleverb

To trail or follow around.

Suspendverb

To hang freely; underhang.

‘to suspend a ball by a thread’;

Dangleverb

Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.

Suspendverb

To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.

Dangleverb

To position (a patient) in this way.

Suspendverb

(obsolete) To make to depend.

Danglenoun

An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.

Suspendverb

To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.

‘to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club’;

Danglenoun

The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.

‘That was a sick dangle for a great goal!’;

Suspendverb

(chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

Danglenoun

A dangling ornament or decoration.

Suspendverb

To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.

Dangleverb

To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.

‘He'd rather on a gibbet dangleThan miss his dear delight, to wrangle.’; ‘From her lifted handDangled a length of ribbon.’; ‘The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them,are well inclined to pull down the present establishment.’;

Suspendverb

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

Dangleverb

To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.

‘And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume.’;

Suspendverb

To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.

Dangleverb

hang freely;

‘the ornaments dangled from the tree’; ‘The light dropped from the ceiling’;

Suspendverb

To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

‘Suspend your indignation against my brother.’; ‘The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so nearAt once suspends their courage and their fear.’;

Dangleverb

cause to dangle or hang freely;

‘He dangled the ornaments from the Christmas tree’;

Suspendverb

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.

Suspendverb

To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.

‘Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.’;

Suspendverb

To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.

Suspendverb

To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

Suspendverb

To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).

Suspendverb

hang freely;

‘The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them’;

Suspendverb

cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;

‘suspend the particles’;

Suspendverb

bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.

Suspendverb

stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;

‘Suspend the aid to the war-torn country’;

Suspendverb

make inoperative or stop;

‘suspend payments on the loan’;

Suspendverb

as of a prison sentence

Suspendverb

temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect

‘work on the dam was suspended’;

Suspendverb

officially prohibit (someone) from holding their usual post or carrying out their usual role for a particular length of time

‘two officers were suspended from duty pending the outcome of the investigation’;

Suspendverb

defer or delay (an action, event, or judgement)

‘the judge suspended judgement until January 15’;

Suspendverb

(of a judge or court) cause (an imposed sentence) not to be enforced as long as no further offence is committed within a specified period

‘the sentence was suspended for six months’;

Suspendverb

hang (something) from somewhere

‘the light was suspended from the ceiling’;

Suspendverb

(of solid particles) be dispersed throughout the bulk of a fluid

‘the paste contains collagen suspended in a salt solution’;

Suspendverb

prolong (a note of a chord) into a following chord, usually so as to produce a temporary discord.