Suspend vs. Terminate

Suspend vs. Terminate — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Suspend and Terminate

Suspendverb

To halt something temporarily.

The meeting was suspended for lunch.

Terminateverb

To end, especially in an incomplete state.

to terminate a surface by a lineto terminate an effort, or a controversy

Suspendverb

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.

to suspend one's judgement or one's disbelief

Terminateverb

To set or be a limit or boundary to.

Suspendverb

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

to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

Terminateverb

To kill.

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Suspendverb

To hang freely; underhang.

to suspend a ball by a thread

Terminateverb

To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.

Suspendverb

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

Terminateadjective

Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.

Suspendverb

(obsolete) To make to depend.

Terminateadjective

Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth.
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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

Terminateadjective

(mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal.

Suspendverb

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

Terminateverb

bring to an end or halt;

She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crimeThe attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI

Suspendverb

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

Terminateverb

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;

the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bedYour rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of otherMy property ends by the bushesThe symphony ends in a pianissimo

Suspendverb

hang freely;

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

Terminateverb

be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;

This sad scene ended the movie

Suspendverb

cause to be held in suspension in a fluid;

suspend the particles

Terminateverb

terminate the employment of;

The boss fired his secretary todayThe company terminated 25% of its workers

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