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suggestion
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an idea that is suggested; "the picnic was her suggestion" a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" [syn: proposition , proffer ] a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" [syn: ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suggestion \Sug*ges"tion\, n. [F. suggestion, L. suggestio.] The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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.