Suite vs. Building — What's the Difference?

A set of rooms designated for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, and aesthetic reasons.

A set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.

A structure with a roof and walls, such as a house or factory.

A group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank

The action or trade of constructing something

A set of programs with a uniform design and the ability to share data.

A flock of rooks

A group of minerals, rocks, or fossils occurring together and characteristic of a location or period

Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.

A staff of attendants or followers; a retinue.

The act, process, art, or occupation of constructing.

A group of related things intended to be used together; a set.

(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.

(also st) A set of matching furniture

(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

A series of connected rooms, as in a hotel or office building, used as a single unit.

Present participle of build

An instrumental composition, especially of the 1600s or 1700s, consisting of a succession of dances in the same or related keys.

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.

An instrumental composition consisting of a series of varying movements or pieces.

The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.

A group of software products packaged and sold together, usually having a consistent look and feel, a common installation, and shared macros.

That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.

A group of procedures that work cooperatively

A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place;

A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.

The act of constructing or building something;

A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.

The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;

A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.

The occupants of a building;

(music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.

(music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.

(computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.

One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.

A musical composition of several movements only loosely connected

Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

The group following and attending to some important person

A matching set of furniture