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S vs Ablative - What's the difference?

s | ablative |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun ablative is

.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    ablative

    English

    (wikipedia ablative)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
  • * , 1622The Works of Joseph Hall: Sermons (http://books.google.com/books?id=6KA9AAAAYAAJ), page 123
    • Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
  • (engineering, nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling. .
  • (medical) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
  • (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.

    • Derived terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) The ablative case.
  • An ablative material.

    • Derived terms

    * ablative absolute

    References

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