Definition of g-suit in English English dictionary
- A suit designed to maintain the supply of blood to the head during violent acceleration
- BIG suit
- An airtight full-body suit intended to protect wearer from biologically hazardous persons, serums, materials, or lifeforms
- Mao suit
- A type of jacket popularized in China in the 20th century, with two breast pockets and two waist pockets
- Santa suit
- A red and white costume associated with Santa Claus, normally including an ostentatious black belt
- amicable suit
- An action to secure clarification on a point of law, in concord and in the mutual interest of the parties involved
- bathing suit
- A tight-fitting garment worn for swimming; a swimsuit
- birthday suit
- Nakedness; a lack of clothing
George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit. (i.e., George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door naked).
- boiler suit
- A one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour
- combat armor suit
- a powered, armed and armored exoskeleton, in fiction and military research
- combat armour suit
- Alternative spelling of combat armor suit
- diving suit
- A garment or apparatus worn by a diver for protection from the underwater environment
- diving-suit
- Alternative spelling of diving suit
- empty suit
- A person ineffective or incompetent in his/her position of authority. Derived from unfavorable observations that ineffective professionals are memorable only for what they wear and not what they accomplish at the workplace
- follow suit
- To follow an example; to imitate
If you are not sure of the proper etiquette, watch what others do and follow suit.
- follow suit
- To play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card
- friendly suit
- : Where two subsidiaries of the same parent company accidentally sue each other, not realising that they have the same owner. An analogy is "friendly fire", where a person accidentally shoots someone on his or her own side
- friendly suit
- : Where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of (unsettled) law
- ghillie suit
- A type of overall covered in torn cloth sheds, used as camouflage by hunters and military snipers
- lounge suit
- A man’s suit
- major suit
- Either of the suits of spades (♠) and hearts (♥), which rank higher than the minor suits (diamonds and clubs)
- man-o'-war suit
- A suit, especially worn in the 19th century, with long trousers and wide-brimmed straw sailor hat
She had an open book on her knees and was pointing out something in it to Constantine who, dressed in a man-o'-war suit, lay at her feet. - The Dead, from Dubliners, by James Joyce.
- minor suit
- Either of the suits of diamonds (♦) and clubs (♣), which rank lower than the major suits (spades and hearts)
- morning suit
- Formal day wear consisting of a (usually) gray tailcoat and matching trousers, grey top hat, white shirt and tie or cravat. Morning dress can be worn up to 5: 00 pm
- paternity suit
- A lawsuit to identify a child's father and establish child support
- penguin suit
- A tuxedo
- power suit
- A suit stereotypically associated with the 1980s, characterized by sharp cuts, wide shoulder pads, and a stiff rigidity
- power suit
- A powered exoskeleton
The crew chief was wearing a bulky exoskeleton power suit that enabled her to manipulate components weighing over a tonne.
- safari suit
- A suit, typically made of khaki cotton, and consisting of a long square-cut safari jacket and long or short trousers
- sailor suit
- The uniform traditionally worn by enlisted seamen, later a popular clothing style for children
- shell suit
- A lightweight tracksuit consisting of a matching zip-front jacket and matching elasticated trousers, each having an outer nylon shell, often bearing panels and flashes of different colours, and inner cotton lining; popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s both as sportswear and as general leisurewear
- shell-suit
- Alternative spelling of shell suit
- space suit
- A system of protective and pressurized clothing, together with environmental equipment, worn by astronauts when in space
- strong suit
- A field in which, or task at which, one is quite capable
That area isn't my strong suit, but I can give it a shot.
- suit
- A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
- suit
- To dress; to clothe
So went he suited to his watery tomb. —Shakespeare.
- suit
- The full set of sails required for a ship
- suit
- Regular order; succession
Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — Francis Bacon.
- suit
- : The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase
- suit
- A full set of armour
- suit
- : To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by with or to
Give me not an office That suits with me so ill. — Joseph Addison.
- suit
- The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal
Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — Edmund Spenser.
- suit
- The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit
If you take my advice, you'll file suit against him immediately.
- suit
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman
Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
- suit
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship
Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Alexander Pope.
- suit
- To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit
Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. — Matthew Prior.
- suit
- A company of attendants or followers; a retinue
- suit
- A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit
- suit
- Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards
To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — William Cowper.
- suit
- To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word
- suit
- A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor
Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a surprise visit to this department.
- suit
- To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one’s taste
- suit costs
- an award granted by a court requiring on party to pay a portion of the costs associated with a law suit for another party
- suit of armor
- A collection of garments, usually made of metal, worn over the body for protection in battle from weapons
- suit of armour
- A collection of garments, usually made of metal, worn over the body for protection in battle from weapons
- suit up
- To don a protective suit, such as a spacesuit
Each day for three weeks they suited up and went out to the module and fed it.
- three-piece suit
- A suit consisting of matching jacket, trousers and waistcoat
- union suit
- one-piece underwear, usually long, combining drawers and long-sleeved, button-front undershirt in a single garment, with a flap in the seat that can be opened for defecation
- vexatious suit
- A suit commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, or without cause
- zoot suit
- An outfit featuring a suit with broad shoulders, a long coat, and baggy trousers that taper to a tight fit at the ankles
Dexter Gordon was an idol around Central Avenue. He was tall. He wore a wide-brimmed hat that made him seem like he was about seven feet tall. He had a stoop to his walk and wore long zoot suits, and he carried his tenor in a sack under his arm.
- training suit
- track suit, practice clothes, sports clothes
- biohazard suit
- a loose one-piece garment worn to protect the wearer against dangerous biological or chemical agents
- ghillie suit
- (Gıda) A ghillie suit, also known as a yowie suit, or camo tent, is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble heavy foliage. Typically, it is a net or cloth garment covered in loose strips of burlap, cloth or twine, sometimes made to look like leaves and twigs, and optionally augmented with scraps of foliage from the area
- yowie suit
- (Gıda) A ghillie suit, also known as a yowie suit, or camo tent, is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble heavy foliage. Typically, it is a net or cloth garment covered in loose strips of burlap, cloth or twine, sometimes made to look like leaves and twigs, and optionally augmented with scraps of foliage from the area
- suit
- {v} to fit, be fitted, adapt, agree, accord, dress
- suit
- {n} a set, retinue, courtship, request, process
- birdman suit
- (Spor) Jumpsuit, wingsuit, a special suit that shapes the human body into an airfoil which can create lift. The birdman suit creates the airfoil shape with fabric sewn between the legs and under the arms
- hazmat suit
- A garment worn to be protected from hazardous materials or substances
- in one's birthday suit
- (deyim) Mother-naked, naked as the day one was born, naked as the day you were born, in your birthday suit
- long suit
- (deyim) [usually with negative] (one's long suit) one's outstanding quality or achievement
- long suit
- (deyim) (in bridge or whist) a holding of several cards of one suit in a hand, typically 5 or more out of the 13
- strong suit
- 1. A quality, activity, or skill in which a person excels.2. Games. A long suit in a card game such as bridge that contains high cards
Foreign policy was the President's strong suit.
- suit
- be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me
- suit of armor
- Armor that protects the wearer's whole body, body armor [US], body armour [Brit, Cdn], suit of armour [Brit, Cdn], coat of mail, cataphract
- suit up
- Don a uniform or sports outfit. "The veterans like to suit up for the Fourth of July parade."