S vs Indispensable - What's the difference?
s | indispensable |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
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
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(ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
(in the plural, colloquial, dated) Trousers.
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As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective indispensable is
(ecclesiastical|obsolete) not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.As a noun indispensable is
a thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}indispensable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The law was moral and indispensable . -Bp. Burnet
- An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.}}