Billet vs X - What's the difference?
billet | x |
A short informal letter.
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A written order to quarter soldiers.
A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
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An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
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To lodge soldiers, usually by order.
* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
(label) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
(architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun billet
is ticket.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.billet
English
(wikipedia billet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bylet, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets .}}
- 17 June 1940': Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ ' billet . Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
Verb
- Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
Etymology 3
(etyl) billette, from ).Noun
(en noun)- They shall beat out my brains with billets .
- (Knight)