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S vs Boll - What's the difference?

s | boll |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun boll is

bowl, dish.

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 ----

    boll

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  • * 1853 ,
    • Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.
  • An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.

    • Derived terms

    * boll weevil * throat-boll

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  • * Bible, Exodus ix. 31
    • The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled .
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