S vs Broadside - What's the difference?
s | broadside |
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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(nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
(by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
* 1993 , (Peter Kolchin), American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
* 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
To collide with something sideways on
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun broadside is
(nautical) one side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.As an adverb broadside is
sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.As a verb broadside is
to collide with something sideways on.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}broadside
English
Noun
(en noun)- Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
- Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.