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S vs Becket - What's the difference?

s | becket |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun becket is

(nautical) a short piece of rope spliced to form a circle.

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=··· , 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 ----

    becket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
  • (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other endUS FM 55-501 MARINE CREWMAN’S HANDBOOK; 1 December 1999 . Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
  • (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
  • An eye in the end of a rope.
  • A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets ) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
  • (UK, dialect) A spade for digging turf.
    • (Wright)
    File:Tent_Becket.JPG, Diagram showing beckets used to join tent panels together.

    References