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S vs Accrue - What's the difference?

s | accrue |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb accrue is

to increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.

As a noun accrue is

(obsolete) something that accrues; advantage accruing.

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 ----

    accrue

    English

    (wikipedia accrue)

    Verb

    (accru)
  • To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
  • * And though power failed, her courage did accrue -
  • * Interest accrues to principal - Abbott
  • * The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press - Junius
  • (accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
    • The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
  • (legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

    • Antonyms

    * (accounting) amortize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
    • English words prefixed with ad-