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S vs Apparat - What's the difference?

s | apparat |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun apparat is

the soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

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=··· , 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 ----

    apparat

    English

    Noun

  • The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 184:
    • The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.

    Related terms

    * apparatchik * apparatus ----