S vs Answerable - What's the difference?
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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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Obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible.
(archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable ((to)).
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
(rare) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective answerable is
obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible.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=? }}answerable
English
Alternative forms
* aunswerable (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
- What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? --Holland.
- To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
- The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable . --Johnson.