suit

[suːt,sjuːt]
n
any set of clothes of the same or similar material designed to be worn together, now usually (for men) a jacket with matching trousers or (for women) a jacket with matching or contrasting skirt or trousers
any outfit worn for a specific purpose
a spacesuit
any set of items, such as the full complement of sails of a vessel or parts of personal armour
any of the four sets of 13 cards in a pack of playing cards, being spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. The cards in each suit are two to ten, jack, queen, and king in the usual order of ascending value, with ace counting as either the highest or lowest according to the game
a civil proceeding; lawsuit
the act or process of suing in a court of law
a petition or appeal made to a person of superior rank or status or the act of making such a petition
a business executive or white-collar manager
a man's courting of a woman
vb
to make or be fit or appropriate for
that dress suits you
to meet the requirements or standards (of)
to be agreeable or acceptable to (someone)
- 习惯用语
- follow suit to play a card of the same suit as the card played immediately before it.to act in the same way as someone else
- strong suit something that one excels in
- strongest suit 同
- suit oneself to pursue one's own intentions without reference to others