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 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 suffix of the possessive or genitive case singular, earlier -es, by syncope -s, now regularly written with an apostrophe, '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.
- The suffix of the third person singular of the present indicative of verbs, earlier -es, more originally -eth, -th. See -eth, -th.
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 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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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.
Adventures in Cyberspace Ruth Bender 2011
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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'."
Peter Temple's style suits his substance Peter Rozovsky 2010
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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.
Cross-Border M Matthew Curtin 2010
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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'.
Peter Temple's style suits his substance Peter Rozovsky 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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).
Emmy nominations 2010: Who got snubbed? And which nominee has you most excited? | EW.com 2010
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