v. t. | 1. | To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo. | |||
2. | (Law) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially. | ||||
3. | (Falconry) To clean, as the beak; - said of a hawk. | ||||
4. | (Naut.) To leave high and dry on shore;
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v. i. | 1. | To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | |||
2. | (Law) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; | ||||
3. | To woo; to pay addresses as a lover. | ||||
4. | (Naut.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship. |
Noun | 1. | Sue - French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857) Synonyms: Eugene Sue |
Verb | 1. | sue - institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" |
TO SUE. To prosecute or commence legal proceedings for the purpose of recovering a right.
Sue - The system language used to write an operating system for
the IBM 360. It is a cross between Pascal and XPL. It
allows type checked separate compilation of internal
procedures using a program library. ["The System Language for Project Sue", B.L. Clark e al, SIGPLAN Notices 6(9):79-88 (Oct 1971)]. |