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S vs Paperweight - What's the difference?

s | paperweight |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun paperweight is

a small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.

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 ----

    paperweight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight .}}
  • Any object for this purpose.
    • John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
  • (slang) An otherwise useless piece of equipment.