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S vs Blanch - What's the difference?

s | blanch |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun blanch is

, a less common spelling of blanche.

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 ----

    blanch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) blanchir

    Verb

    (es)
  • To grow or become white
  • his cheek blanched with fear
    the rose blanches in the sun
  • To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
  • to blanch linen
    age has blanched his hair
  • (cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  • To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
  • To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
  • To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding
  • to blanch almonds
  • To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
  • To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  • (figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
  • * Tillotson
  • Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

    Etymology 2

    Variant of blench

    Verb

    (es)
  • To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
  • * Reliq. Wot
  • I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
  • To cause to turn aside or back.
  • to blanch a deer
  • To use evasion.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .
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