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S vs Hyphenated - What's the difference?

s | hyphenated |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb hyphenated is

(hyphenate).

As an adjective hyphenated is

written with a hyphen.

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=··· , 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 ----

    hyphenated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hyphenate)
    • Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Written with a hyphen.
    • Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.
  • Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
    • "[The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity. " Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right, October 28, 2005.