Detention vs. Suspension — What's the Difference?

The action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody

An interruption or temporary cessation, as of an activity or of the application of a rule or law.

The act of detaining.

A temporary prohibition or exclusion, as from attending school or enjoying a privilege, especially as a punishment.

A period of temporary custody while awaiting trial.

A postponement, as of a judgment, opinion, or decision.

A holding of a person in custody or confinement by authorities for political or military reasons.

The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into a following chord to create a temporary dissonance.

A form of punishment by which a student is made to stay after regular school hours.

The tone or tones so prolonged.

(uncountable) The act of detaining or the state of being detained.

A device from which a mechanical part is suspended.

(countable) A temporary state of custody or confinement.

The system of springs and other devices that insulates the chassis of a vehicle from shocks transmitted through the wheels.

(law) Confinement of a prisoner awaiting trial.

(Chemistry) A system in which minute particles are dispersed throughout a fluid from which they are easily filtered but not easily settled because of system viscosity or molecular interactions.

(pedagogy) A punishment given to a student for a minor infraction, typically requiring the student to report to a designated room during recess or outside of school hours to work on homework or perform busywork.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

(civil law) The bare physical control without the mental element of intention required for possession.

A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.

The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.

The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Thus a kind of silt or sludge.

Confinement; restraint; custody.

The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.

A state of being confined (usually for a short time);

The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.

A punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home;

(education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).

(music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.

A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.

(topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.

(topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.

(vehicle) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation

A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.

The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.

A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.

A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.

A mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy

A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

Temporary cessation or suspension

An interruption in the intensity or amount of something

A mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle

The act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely);

A temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)