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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suggestion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
add weight to the suggestion/idea etc
▪ Recent research adds weight to the theory that the climate is changing.
dismiss an idea/suggestion
▪ Both actors dismissed any idea of a romantic relationship between them.
helpful advice/hints/suggestions etc
▪ Our sales staff are there to give you helpful advice.
put forward a proposal/suggestion
▪ She put forward a compromise proposal.
refute an allegation/a suggestion etc
▪ She refuted any allegations of malpractice.
take sb up on an offer/a promise/a suggestion etc
▪ I’ll take you up on that offer of a drink, if it still stands.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
▪ An alternative suggestion is that the substances produced by ants might supplement the birds' preen oil in some way.
▪ Answers of this kind were often accompanied by alternative suggestions such as 5, 7 or 14 days.
▪ Here are some brief alternative suggestions: 1.
▪ Some employers' organisations have put forward alternative suggestions.
▪ It is to his credit that he makes alternative suggestions as to how this may be addressed.
helpful
▪ Do you have any helpful suggestions?
▪ More often than not a reader unfamiliar with your work will give you some of the most helpful suggestions.
▪ An instruction book is included in the box, with helpful hints and suggestions for projects.
▪ These channels are described in more detail in specialist publications which also offer helpful suggestions on how and when to use them.
▪ Any helpful suggestions or comments would also be welcome.
open
▪ Therefore I would not necessarily be looking for a secretarial position, and would be open to other suggestions.
▪ This gave the impression that they were open to thoughtful suggestions.
▪ The new men in the Kremlin might be unsure of themselves and their thinking open to outside suggestions.
▪ He is open to better suggestions.
▪ Thomas said his committee was open to suggestions.
practical
▪ In the last two sections of the book the reader can find practical suggestions for the use of immunoassays in field conditions.
▪ WalkerThomas had two very practical suggestions.
▪ Pamphlets of practical suggestions will be distributed to all Congregational Church families.
▪ Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions - and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners.
▪ Now for some small and very practical suggestions for last minute presents.
▪ Scholes makes useful and practical suggestions for helping students to read better in this situation.
▪ There follows a list of practical suggestions concerning ways in which the protection of intellectual property rights can be maximized.
■ VERB
accept
▪ I can not accept this suggestion.
▪ The mediator merely functions as a facilitator and has no legal power to force the parties to accept these suggestions.
▪ Be prepared to accept a suggestion from a fellow student.
▪ Oliver was glad to accept the suggestion.
▪ You can accept this suggestion and opt to make the two objects keep the alignment.
▪ He accepted my suggestion with enthusiasm.
▪ Anne herself was well aware of Joan's motive in accepting the suggestion with such alacrity.
▪ The judge did not accept the suggestion that Mr. Hallworth saw Mrs. Aboody alone after her husband's interruption.
agree
▪ Would it be totally insane of her to agree to his suggestion?
▪ Not all will necessarily agree with the suggestion that those who fight in wars are historically more important than the wars themselves.
▪ She hadn't known, when she agreed to Caro's suggestion, that her friend lived on a narrow boat.
▪ The Mayor, as Masko would have realised, had little option but to agree to the suggestion.
consider
▪ A library committee of 18 members was then constituted to consider these suggestions.
▪ A special reform commission was appointed to consider their suggestions.
▪ I hope that my right hon. and learned Friend will consider that suggestion.
▪ Review the Investment Overview and related transmittal memo and consider submission of purchaser suggestions. 4.
▪ He liked the offworlder well enough, but it was ridiculous for Zurachina even to consider the suggestion.
▪ Sir Peter Hordern I should certainly like to consider that suggestion.
▪ I hope that the Home Secretary will consider all the suggestions that have been made in this sensible debate.
deny
▪ Mr Heseltine denied any suggestions that he was interested in Mr Lamont's job.
▪ She denies any suggestion that she used her official position for personal gain.
▪ Sandone denied any suggestions that the move was in any way a legal ploy.
▪ But he publicly denies any suggestion of wrongdoing.
▪ Viren vigorously denied the suggestion, saying that he drank only reindeer milk.
dismiss
▪ Mr Withington dismissed suggestions the company might face a growing number of smuggling cases.
▪ The facts here being admittedly extreme, the Court of Appeal could dismiss this suggestion without difficulty.
▪ He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year's schedule.
▪ For those who dismiss the suggestion, a warning.
▪ It dismisses suggestions that acid rain is a key factor in declining tree health.
follow
▪ Basically, if you follow the suggestions we have made earlier, you will obtain adequate supplies of vitamins and minerals.
▪ These grant forms may look casual enough, but follow their instructions and suggestions very carefully and precisely.
▪ If you decide to follow any of these suggestions, don't expect immediate results.
▪ The legislation was followed almost immediately by suggestions of further change.
▪ In this respect, they may be regarded as following Gandhi's suggestions and advice.
▪ She resisted his pressure to reveal her story, but finally followed his suggestion to tell it to the hearth.
lead
▪ This has led to the suggestion that there was an eclipse of the sun.
▪ Never did she ask leading questions or provide suggestions.
▪ The state of the M25 has led to suggestions that bigger and better roads may lead only to worse jams.
▪ These findings have led to the suggestion that altered endothelial function without endothelial loss may be important in permitting platelet thrombus formation.
▪ That has led to a suggestion with far-reaching consequences.
make
▪ Make out there was room for improvement. Make suggestions she could mention to her surgeon.
▪ Mediators may make suggestions, but they do not impose a solution.
▪ The referees have made many valuable suggestions.
▪ Shaw has made the same suggestion to House leaders.
▪ In a rather tentative manner, they made some suggestions on how they thought it could be improved.
▪ We made suggestions, to be overruled by upstarts.
▪ I made a few suggestions, creating chances, scoring goals, but it did not get through.
▪ If not, get those who were successful to help the others by making suggestions.
offer
▪ Is there any other program which can help, or can you offer any other suggestions?
▪ Let me offer a few suggestions.
▪ Carolyn Henderson offers some springtime suggestions.
▪ Rather, offer the suggestion and see if there is interest.
▪ This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud.
▪ They expressed strong disappointment at not being included but offered numerous suggestions for Rice to consider.
▪ All members of the Planning Group to offer suggestions for a second speaker.
▪ Hear my strategy. Offer some suggestions and then leave me alone.
reject
▪ She also rejected the suggestion that they simply needed to make a telephone call home to solve differences with their parents.
▪ The general quickly rejected suggestions from Sen.
▪ Mr Clarke rejected suggestions that his absence from Westminster on his trip had damaged his chances.
▪ Response Comment Half of the respondents rejected this suggestion and around one-third were in favour.
▪ Lady Ursula had gently but firmly rejected the suggestion that some one should stay.
▪ Azapo also rejected the suggestion of an all-party conference, and denied having pursued any contacts with the government.
▪ Bush rejected suggestions that he had chosen Thomas because he was black.
support
▪ Such findings would support the suggestion that a myopic mammal would be at a natural disadvantage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a list of holiday gift suggestions
▪ Barry ignored my suggestion that he should try phoning her again.
▪ Does anyone have any other suggestions?
▪ Don't underestimate the power of suggestion.
▪ She made some useful suggestions about places we could visit.
▪ We liked your suggestion about changing the timetable.
▪ We welcome any suggestions from our viewers as to how to improve our service.
▪ You must be flexible and open to suggestions in this job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After several public hearings that generated many suggestions, the city ventured into pockets of connectivity.
▪ I make no such suggestion, Mr Mayor.
▪ There is no suggestion that people directly involved with Kingfisher profited from knowing that a bid was imminent.
▪ We remain open to suggestions on decommissioning.
▪ Yet there is no suggestion of a union between Ge and Zeus.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suggestion

Suggestion \Sug*ges"tion\, n. [F. suggestion, L. suggestio.]

  1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

  2. That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.

    Why do I yield to that suggestion?
    --Shak.

  3. Charge; complaint; accusation. [Obs.] ``A false suggestion.''
    --Chaucer.

  4. (Law) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

  5. (Physiol. & Metaph.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

  6. (Hypnotism) The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.

    Syn: Hint; allusion; intimation; insinuation.

    Usage: Suggestion, Hint. A hint is the briefest or most indirect mode of calling one's attention to a subject. A suggestion is a putting of something before the mind for consideration, an indirect or guarded mode of presenting argument or advice. A hint is usually something slight or covert, and may by merely negative in its character. A suggestion is ordinarily intended to furnish us with some practical assistance or direction. ``He gave me a hint of my danger, and added some suggestions as to the means of avoiding it.''

    Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
    --Pope.

    Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night On your suggestion.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suggestion

mid-14c., "a prompting to evil," from Anglo-French and Old French suggestioun "hint, temptation," from Latin suggestionem (nominative suggestio) "an addition, intimation, suggestion," noun of action from suggestus, past participle of suggerere "bring up, bring under, lay beneath; furnish, afford, supply; prompt," from sub "up" (see sub-) + gerere "bring, carry" (see gest). Sense evolution in Latin is from "heap up, build" to "bring forward an idea." Meaning "proposal, statement, declaration" appeared by late 14c., but original English notion of "evil prompting" remains in suggestive. Hypnotism sense is from 1887.

Wiktionary
suggestion

n. 1 (context countable English) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being ''for'') 2 (context uncountable English) The act of suggesting. 3 (context countable psychology English) Something imply, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

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WordNet
suggestion

  1. n. an idea that is suggested; "the picnic was her suggestion"

  2. a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" [syn: proposition, proffer]

  3. a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" [syn: trace, hint]

  4. persuasion formulated as a suggestion [syn: prompting]

  5. the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association

  6. the act of inducing hypnosis [syn: hypnotism, mesmerism]

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Wikipedia
Suggestion

Suggestion is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another. Nineteenth-century writers on psychology such as William James used the words "suggest" and "suggestion" in senses close to—one idea was said to suggest another when it brought that other idea to mind. Early scientific studies of hypnosis by Clark Leonard Hull and others extended the meaning of these words in a special and technical sense (Hull, 1933). The original neuro-psychological theory of hypnotic suggestion was based upon the ideo-motor reflex response of William B. Carpenter and James Braid.

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Usage examples of "suggestion".

I dare to make a suggestion, I would say you are adopting the best possible way to ruin yourself.

Perhaps it was with some unconscious dread of this tedium that he made a sudden suggestion to Sir Alured in reference to Dresden.

With regard to your suggestion that we should meet in person, to discuss the basis of a possible amalgamation, I can only say my house is at present full of guests--as is doubtless your own--and I should therefore find it practically impossible to leave Glen-Ellachie.

The awesome, aperiodic double helixwith its seductive suggestion of encoded information assembling an entire organismspread before him at twenty-one, wider than the American Wilderness.

She could be very tiresome in that regard, and the suggestion that Ava might have to sit an entire evening with her was more than she could possibly endure.

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A small mental push sent Bevel veering off toward the galley, obedient to the planted suggestion to share a glass of doctored wine with his captain.

There have been suggestions that ancient linen tends to support the continued growth of bacteria that leave behind a transparent, varnish-like biofilm that would distort the results.

On hearing this suggestion Scragga uttered a sort of howl, and bolted into the hut.

It had an air of somewhat gloomy respectability, and was presided over by an angular lady whose appearance carried the suggestion that she must be in mourning for a near relation, since she wore a bombasine dress of sombre hue, without frills, or lace, or even a ribbon to lighten its sobriety.

They were walking toward the door, Cardona and Brye, the inspector making suggestions that he considered subtle.

He forestalled any attempt, quashed any suggestion, to hold Harry here at the caravanserai until some official investigator arrived.

Actually, the suggestion that chloroplasts and mitochondria might be endosymbionts was made as long ago as 1885, but one might expect, nevertheless, that confirmation of the suggestion would have sent the investigators out into the streets, hallooing.

But there was no suggestion that the head should remain covered once we had it safety in the whaleboat, and with what ceremony and aplomb I could muster in the streaming tropical rain, I unveiled it for Chubby and Angelo.

The suggestion was a good one, for thus many valuable minutes might be saved to us, and, throwing every ounce of my earthly muscles into the effort, I cleared the remaining distance between myself and the cliffs in great leaps and bounds that put me at their base in a moment.