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Mom vs San - What's the difference?

mom | san |

As nouns the difference between mom and san

is that mom is mother, momma while san is a letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.

As proper nouns the difference between mom and san

is that mom is one's mother while San is a member of the ethnically distinct, short-statured nomadic people of southern Africa.

As an adjective MoM

is month-over-month; compared to the same time period in the previous month.

As an initialism MOM

is initialism of message-oriented middleware|lang=en hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.

As an acronym SAN is

styrene-acrylonitrile resin.

mom

English

Alternative forms

* mam * Mom * mum, Mum (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, West Midlands, colloquial, familiar) mother, momma.

    • Usage notes

    * "Mom" is capitalized when used as a proper noun, but not when used as a common noun: *: I think Mom likes my new car. *: I think my mom will like you.

    See also

    * Mother’s Day *

    Anagrams

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    san

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase ) that came after pi and before qoppa.

    • See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    sanatorium

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
  • * 1940 , Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School
    • "Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San ."
  • * 2005 , Dan Soucoup, ?Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)
    • River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San " at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.

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