S vs Behooved - What's the difference?
s | behooved |
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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(behoove)
(US) To suit; to befit
* 2002 , Senator Douglas Roche,
(US) To be necessary
(US) To be in one's best interest; to benefit
* 1803 , Thomas Jefferson in a
* 2007 , Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars , page 208
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb behooved is
(behoove).s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}behooved
English
Verb
(head)behoove
English
Alternative forms
* behove (UK)Verb
(behoov)Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Parliament of Canada:
- I think it ill behooves the Government of Canada[...] to pretend that there are not these distinctions in how each of us approaches questions of security.
letterto Benjamin Rush:
- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.
- "It behooves' us to be prepared. We will begin a series of atomic bomb drills ..." / "Becomes necessary, Mr. Hupfer," said Mrs. Baker, "as in 'It ' behooves us to raise our hands before we ask a question."