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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suitcase
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
living out of a suitcase (=spending a lot of time travelling)
▪ He was tired of living out of a suitcase.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
▪ He had lugged his poor wife round for so long, like a heavy suitcase.
▪ Six weeks ago the Hosic family touched down at Logan Airport, their hearts as heavy as their suitcases.
▪ Their soft-soled trainers made little noise and the heavy suitcases were no burden to them.
large
▪ She picked up her two large suitcases and walked through the small cool ticket office on to the station forecourt.
▪ I went through the gear very quickly, throwing what I thought was extraneous into a large suitcase.
▪ Together they packed his clothes and personal belongings into one large suitcase and a leather grip.
▪ A large suitcase lay on the bed, still full of the clothes he'd taken from the other room.
old
▪ He returned with an old, torn suitcase and a flat cardboard box.
▪ Modigliani also tried to sell an old suitcase to an artist friend, but without success.
▪ Rosenbaum placed the package carefully in his old suitcase.
open
▪ There were so many vans and stalls and open suitcases he was afraid to think of counting them.
▪ Tessa's clothes straggled across the carpet from her open suitcase.
small
▪ She followed him out into the hallway, toting her small suitcase.
▪ Her father was there, helping arrange her few things in a small suitcase, folding up the bed linens.
▪ He ranged along his shelves, found the numbered item, a small fibre suitcase, and handed it over.
▪ There was only her one small suitcase and the bag with the dress in it for Peach.
▪ Ellis opened the cupboard and took out a small black plastic suitcase.
▪ He was zipping up a small brown suitcase which he placed under the table he was standing at, next to another one.
■ NOUN
full
▪ My possessions were a suitcase full of clothes and a steamer trunk full of books.
■ VERB
bring
▪ After a further few days I brought my suitcases up from London.
▪ Ludens had brought up two suitcases in the lift.
▪ A man had brought in the suitcases and stood them in the middle of the floor.
carry
▪ Some of the fitter ones run round the block carrying a suitcase.
▪ When they reached the cottage, Wade parked near the porch and carried her suitcase inside.
▪ Clare, who was carrying Carolyn's suitcase, leaned against a door to hold it open for her.
▪ Then, staggering under the weight, she carried her suitcases into the waiting room and sat down beside Ollie.
▪ He bought Dawn a newspaper for the journey and carried her suitcase along the platform to the compartment.
▪ The man in the worn-out boots limped towards the door carrying an ancient suitcase.
▪ My father was there, carrying a suitcase.
live
▪ But amazingly Miranda, who had lived out of a suitcase for so long, did not thrive in London.
▪ But they were the kind of people who lived out of suitcases for months, sometimes years, at a time.
pack
▪ I doubt she has ever in her life packed a suitcase!
▪ He goes to the bedroom, packs a suitcase, and leaves.
▪ Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it.
▪ What my wife and I like to do is pack the suitcases first.
▪ It had taken her far longer to pack her suitcases than it did to unpack them.
▪ I went on packing the suitcase.
▪ After all, he wasn't packing suitcases for fun.
▪ He had packed his suitcases with many gifts-clothes, candies and crayons, notebooks and pencils.
pick
▪ She picked up her suitcase and made her way along the aisle, pausing to inspect the damage to her legs.
▪ I asked picking up a suitcase.
▪ She picked up the blue suitcase standing by the bedroom door and carried it into the foyer.
▪ Wyatt waved, picked up his suitcase, and started across the meadow.
put
▪ Delia Sutherland put down her suitcase and closed herself in there.
▪ Let him put his suitcase in the trunk himself and then you drive him around town for a while.
▪ It was a relief to be able to put down the suitcase.
▪ I put it into a suitcase pocket, and then I forgot it.
▪ I put the suitcase down on the other bed and began packing the contents of the drawers into it.
▪ Once or twice as he walked up the ramp he put the suitcase down and rested for a moment.
▪ Once we were in the main concourse, I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye.
▪ I put down my suitcase and sat on the edge of the bed.
take
▪ Lily watched him as he took it from his suitcase and dabbed at her thighs and at the bottom sheet.
▪ He saw her getting up and going home, taking a suitcase and catching the noon bus tomorrow.
▪ She wasn't taking her suitcase.
▪ Finally he went into the room while she was still asleep and took the suitcase from the closet.
▪ Roy and Pat took just two suitcases, one for each earring.
▪ Mildred took her suitcase from the back of the broomstick which was hovering politely, waiting for the next command.
▪ They came down and took our suitcases into the house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I said, and went back to my suitcases.
▪ My possessions were a suitcase full of clothes and a steamer trunk full of books.
▪ She could fill the second suitcase with her winter coat.
▪ She followed him out into the hallway, toting her small suitcase.
▪ There was a suitcase on the seat of my compartment.
▪ They had left the hospital grounds now, and she thought about the two suitcases in the back of the car.
▪ Yesterday, after that tearful reunion with my suitcase, I tried to get a negro hand-slapping thing going with Felix.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suitcase

1898, from suit (n.) + case (n.2). Originally a case for holding a suit of clothes. In reference to small nuclear weapons, 1954.

Wiktionary
suitcase

n. large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling vb. to trade using samples in a suitcase#noun

WordNet
suitcase

n. a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him" [syn: bag, traveling bag, grip]

Wikipedia
Suitcase

A suitcase is a general term for a distinguishable form of luggage. It is often a somewhat flat, rectangular-shaped bag with rounded/square corners, either metal, hard plastic or made of cloth, vinyl or leather that more or less retains its shape. It has a carrying handle on one side and is used mainly for transporting clothes and other possessions during trips. It opens on hinges like a door. Suitcases lock with keys or a combination.

Suitcase (Keb' Mo' album)

Suitcase is the ninth studio album by Delta blues artist Keb' Mo' (real name Kevin Moore) released in June 2006. Suitcase sees Moore re-unite with producer John Porter who helped Moore put together his first few commercial releases up to Slow Down, where the two started working on projects with others. In this lieu, Moore worked with a variety of producers gaining a varied production experience, along with producing himself. In this time, Porter (who even prior to collaborating with Moore on Keb' Mo' was a highly experienced producer) moved into new areas of production and produced artists such as Taj Mahal, Bob Dylan and others. The critical and consumer response to this album is higher than the previous few albums by Moore and this can be traced to the reunion of the two, among other factors.

One of the songs, "I See Love", is used as the theme song to the CBS television comedy series Mike & Molly, which debuted in September 2010.

Suitcase (Neil Arthur album)

Suitcase (1994) is the debut solo album by Neil Arthur.

Before the release of the album in 1994, the song "One Day, One Time" had been released as Arthur's debut solo single in 1992, but failed to chart. However it was a radio hit. When the album surfaced, it failed to chart within the UK Top 100. Despite the lack of commercial success from the album, the second and final single "I Love I Hate" peaked at #50 in the UK in 1994, and lasted within the Top 100 for two weeks.

In January 2013, Arthur was interviewed for the StevoMusicMan wordpress website, and was asked about the Suitcase album. The interviewer asked if Arthur felt strange working on an album without his Blancmange partner Stephen Luscombe, and what he learnt from the project. Arthur revealed: "No it didn't feel strange at all. I enjoyed making it. I'm still learning! I'll do another one day one time!"

Suitcase (disambiguation)

Suitcase or The Suitcase may also refer to:

Suitcase (Mary J. Blige song)

"Suitcase" is a song by American recording artist Mary J. Blige. It was co-written by Mark J. Feist, Crystal Nicole, and Adrian Sotomayor, and produced by the former for Blige's soundtrack album Think Like a Man Too (2014), recorded for the comedy film of the same name. Sent as the album's lead and only single for urban contemporary and urban adult contemporary airplay in the US on June 10, 2014, following the release of the buzz track " A Night to Remember", it reached the top 30 on Billboards Adult R&B Songs chart.

Suitcase (magazine)

SUITCASE is a multimedia magazine for travel and fashion, based in London and distributed globally with a readership of 180 thousand. The magazine was founded by Serena Guen in 2012 and comes in the form of a quarterly print magazine, iPad and iPhone apps, daily updated website, weekly newsletter and events.

Its sections include city guides, editorial shoots on location, insider guides by celebrities and industry aficionados, photography diaries and columns such as What to Pack, SUITCASE Meets and 100ML.

Suitcase (Anne Gadegaard song)

"Suitcase" is a song by Danish singer and songwriter Anne Gadegaard. It was released as a digital download in Denmark on 27 January 2015 through Sony Music Entertainment Denmark. It finished second at the Melodi Grand Prix 2015 for a bid to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. The song won the televoting but lost to the winning song " The Way You Are" by Anti Social Media by six points. The song has peaked to number 37 on the Danish Singles Chart.

Usage examples of "suitcase".

In the space of just a few minutes she had seen ten armed men carrying suitcases, a sable-garbed woman with two steel hooks for hands, and now a diamond-studded blond followed by a hulking, apish brute of a man.

After the cheese and fruit dessert, Natalie wanted to visit the aqueduct and take their coffee with them so Saul filled the steel Thermos while she went to her room and got a thick sweater from her suitcase.

The doors were shut but there were rents in the canvas hood through which Asch could see a couple of suitcases and a very full kit bag.

Then I found the atabrine tablets in your suitcase and I dissolved some and forced a little down you and just generally did what I could.

As he reached it, a fellow chief, this one a chief aviation pilot with the wings of a Naval Aviator on his shirt, appeared in the fuselage bubble gingerly holding a canvas suitcase in his fingers.

The black man had appeared quite suddenly out of the mist, swinging a small suitcase in his right hand.

Maryalice said, as Chia watched Eddie, still carrying the suitcase, march straight through the room, through a door, and out of sight.

Monday afternoon Marvin Oates was pulling his suitcase on wheels down a rural road that traversed cattle acreage and pecan orchards, across a bridge that spanned a coulee lined with hardwoods and palmettos, past neat cottages with screened porches and shade trees.

She drew up from the open suitcase a long green paisley gown that set off the cupric tones of her hair.

Then she remembered the suitcase on the backseat and darted over to it.

Navy officer but a Marine officer whom Dawkins knew personally, who stepped out of the passenger seat, walked to the rear of the station wagon, and withdrew two canvas suitcases.

Her suitcase was like the clown car at the circus that keeps degorging occupants far beyond any possible capacity it might have.

Next morning, driven to his hotel by Nat Fraser, Frank found not only his suitcases and the personal things that had been stolen from him by the muggers, but a pile of Swiss francs and Moroccan dirhams atop the rickety dresser.

Moved on by these encouraging words, and a firm hand in the small of his back, Giulio carried the now lightened suitcase down the seemingly endless steps to the harbor.

Paying off the driver, Keever alighted, suitcase in one hand, an evening newspaper in the other.