S vs Aboard - What's the difference?
s | aboard |
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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On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
(baseball) On base.
Into a team, group, or company.
(nautical) Alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
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, url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-british-longitude-act-reconsidered
, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
Onto a horse.
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
* 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adverb aboard is
on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car .As a preposition aboard is
on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane .s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}aboard
English
Adverb
(-)- We all climbed aboard .
- To sling a saddle aboard .
- He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
- The office manager welcomed him aboard .
- The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
- to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We all went aboard the ship.
- Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -