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MUSCOVITE Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
suite or suit? ( reincarnated thread :-)
Hi,
Need your help with the nouns suit / suite.
A friend of mine bought a car dash camera the other day... a low-cost ("Made in China" type of ) gadget with an intriguing name "Shturmann vision suit".
Although I have seen such word combinations as "a suit of sails" or "a suit of tools" in English dictionaries and corpora, still I am not sure if Shturmann vision suit is "preferable" to Shturmann vision suitE?
In general, which of the following example phrases (if any) would sound natural to you?
(1.1) the AAA software documentation suite?
(1.1) the AAA software documentation suit?
(2.1) BBB is believed to be a good C++ programming tool suite for beginners
(2.2) BBB is believed to be a good C++ programming tool suit for beginners
mus-te
Need your help with the nouns suit / suite.
A friend of mine bought a car dash camera the other day... a low-cost ("Made in China" type of ) gadget with an intriguing name "Shturmann vision suit".
Although I have seen such word combinations as "a suit of sails" or "a suit of tools" in English dictionaries and corpora, still I am not sure if Shturmann vision suit is "preferable" to Shturmann vision suitE?
In general, which of the following example phrases (if any) would sound natural to you?
(1.1) the AAA software documentation suite?
(1.1) the AAA software documentation suit?
(2.1) BBB is believed to be a good C++ programming tool suite for beginners
(2.2) BBB is believed to be a good C++ programming tool suit for beginners
mus-te
Top answer
As far as I'm concerned, a suit is formal apparel or a division of playing cards, while a suite is a matched set of something. I see no crossover in meaning when used properly.
- As far as I'm concerned, a suit is formal apparel or a division of playing cards, while a suite is a matched set of something.
- I see no crossover in meaning when used properly.
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As far as I'm concerned, a suit is formal apparel or a division of playing cards, while a suite is a matched set of something. I see no crossover in meaning when used properly.
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Mister MicawberI see no crossover in meaning when used properly.which means (as applied to my examples 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2) that only the variants with "suite" will do ?
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MUSCOVITEwhich means (as applied to my examples 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2) that only the variants with "suite" will do ?Yes, for me—at least, that's how I would invariably spell them.
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I've never heard "a suit of tools". Are you sure you don't mean 'a set of tools'?
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MUSCOVITEwhich means (as applied to my examples 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2) that only the variants with "suite" will do ?Etymologically the words are closely related, and some dictionaries include quite general definitions of "suit", such as "any set of items" (Collins) or "A group of things used together". However, for me, "suit" is used in that sense only in a few
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GPYThe use of "suit" in your examples looks like a mistake.Understood!
MM, Clive, GPY:
Thank you so much!
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