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S vs Backyard - What's the difference?

s | backyard |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun backyard is

a yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.

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 ----

    backyard

    English

    Alternative forms

    * back-yard, back yard

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
  • (colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005
    • , author=Christopher Kennedy Lawford , title=Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption , page=18 citation , isbn=0060732482, 9780060732486 , passage=The entire beach was my backyard , from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north.}}
  • (colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1942
    • , year_published= , author=Wilfrid Hardy Callcott , title=The Caribbean policy of the United States, 1890-1920 , page=343 citation , passage=However, the region was in the United States backyard and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico.}}

    Related terms

    * front yard

    Usage notes

    Note that backyard'' is usually written as a single word, while ''front yard is always written as two words.

    Derived terms

    * backyard cricket * not in my backyard (NIMBY)