Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The 19th letter of the modern English alphabet.
- noun Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter s.
- noun The 19th in a series.
- noun Something shaped like the letter S.
- abbreviation second (unit of time)
- abbreviation Mathematics second (of arc)
- abbreviation stere
- abbreviation strange quark
from The Century Dictionary.
- The suffix of the possessive or genitive case singular, earlier -es, by syncope -s, now regularly written with an apostrophe, 's. See -es.
- The suffix of the third person singular of the present indicative of verbs, earlier -es, more originally -eth, -th. See -eth, -th.
- The suffix of the plural form of nouns, earlier -es, which is now retained in pronunciation only after a sibilant, being otherwise reduced by syncope to -s. See -es.
- The nineteenth letter and fifteenth consonant of the English alphabet, having a corresponding place also in the alphabets from which that is derived (the twenty-first, or last but one, in Phenician).
- As a medieval Roman numeral, 7; also 70; with a dash over it (S), 70,000.
- In chem., the symbol of sulphur.
- An abbreviation: Of Society in such combinations as F. R. S. (Fellow of the Royal Society), F. L. S. (Fellow of the Linnean Society), etc.
- Of Surgery, as in
D. D. S . (Doctor of Dental Surgery). - Of Science, as in
B. S . (Bachelor of Science). - Of South or Southern.
- Of Sunday and Saturday.
- [lowercase] Of Latin solidum, equivalent to English
shilling : as, £ s. d., pounds, shillings, pence. - In anatomy and zoology, of sacral: used in vertebral formulæ: as, S. 5, five sacral vertebræ.
- [lowercase] Of second (sixtieth part of a minute), substantive (a noun), snow (in a ship's log-book), of Latin semi, half (used in medical prescriptions after a quantity which is to be divided into two), and of spherical (of a lens).
- [lowercase] In heraldry, of sable.
- In meteorology, of stratus.
- In musical notation , of senza; in the form:S:, of segno (see
D. S . and segno). - An operative symbol in quaternions, signifying the operation of taking the scalar part of a quaternion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in
sack ,this ; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that ofz ), as inis ,wise . Besides these it sometimes has the sounds ofsh andzh , as insure ,measure . It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as inisle ,débris . With the letterh it forms the digraphsh . SeeGuide to pronunciation , §§ 255-261.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The nineteenth letter of the
basic modern Latin alphabet . - noun Symbol for
second , anSI unit ofmeasurement oftime . - noun
voiceless alveolar fricative - noun The nineteenth
letter of the Englishalphabet , calledess and written in theLatin script . - noun The
ordinal numbernineteenth , derived from thisletter of the Englishalphabet , calledess and written in theLatin script . - abbreviation sciences abbreviation for the
second (unit of time in theInternational System of Units (SI )) - abbreviation metrology abbreviation for the
scruple (unit of mass in the apothecaries' system) - abbreviation Alternative form of
s. .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet
- noun 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- noun (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work
- noun an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
- noun the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees
- noun a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
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Examples
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The mutual relations between the limits in the set l (s), and also between these limits and the limits in other sets l (s′), l (s″), ..., which arise from other abstractive sets s′, s″, etc., have a peculiar simplicity.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
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Besides financial support and managerial experience, Mr. Rod é s Vil à values Mr. Bollor é 's long-term commitment to the group.
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"Or the publisher may simply have decided that design was more important than what once would have been considered correct, literate English, that 's looked better than s'."
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Do you want the Con. s to be tasked with clearing up Lab. 's mess?
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A Gets Harder Canada 's decision to block BHP Billiton' s $39-billion bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan was not just a low for the mining giant 's ambitions.
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Or the publisher may simply have decided that design was more important than what once would have been considered correct, literate English, that 's looked better than s'.
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HS: It was because there were no words, and I wanted Petra Hayden to do her thing, to do some "la la" 's, and she did these "ha ha"'s.
Mike Ragogna: That "St. Judy's Comet" Kid: A Dinner Conversation With Harper Simon
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Do you want the Con. s to be tasked with clearing up Lab. 's mess?
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HS: It was because there were no words, and I wanted Petra Hayden to do her thing, to do some "la la" 's, and she did these "ha ha"'s.
Mike Ragogna: That "St. Judy's Comet" Kid: A Dinner Conversation With Harper Simon
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He is almost 14 years older than me,lol.we met via ~~(A g e l e s s K i s s).
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oroboros commented on the word s
Chemical element symbol for Sulfur.
December 2, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word s
The first intercontinental radio message, transmitted (in Morse code) from Cornwall to Newfoundland in 1901.
June 5, 2009