Contemporary science is typically subdivided into the natural sciences, which study the material universe; the social sciences, which study people and societies; and the formal sciences, which study logic and mathematics.
Definition of suspend for English Language Learners : to force (someone) to leave a job, position, or place for a usually short period of time as a form of punishment : to stop (something) for a usually short period of time
Word Origin and History for suspense Expand. n. c.1400, not being executed, unfulfilled (of legal matters), from Anglo-French suspens (in en suspens in abeyance, c.1300), from Old French suspens act of suspending, from Latin suspensus, past participle of suspendere (see suspend).