S vs Administer - What's the difference?
s | administer |
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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To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
* Macaulay
To apportion out.
* Spectator
* Macaulay
* Philips
To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
* Alexander Pope
To minister (to).
(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
To tender, as an oath.
* Shakespeare
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb administer is
to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.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=? }}administer
English
Alternative forms
* administre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
- A noxious drug had been administered to him.
- A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
- Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.
- [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.
- For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.
- administering to the sick
- Swear to keep the oath that we administer .