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S vs Bruits - What's the difference?

s | bruits |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb bruits is

(bruit).

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

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 ----

    bruits

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bruit)
    • ----

    bruit

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.
  • * 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7
    • Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
  • * 1607 , (William Shakespeare),
    • But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
    • , passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}
  • (label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
  • * 1590 , Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia ,
    • There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.
  • * William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,
    • And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
    Re-speaking earthly thunder.
  • * 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,
    • Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.
  • * {{quote-web, date=2010-08-04
    • , year= , first= , last= , author=Darren Murph , authorlink= , title=China's maglev trains to hit 1,000km/h in three years , site=Engadget citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-03-18 , passage= … it's bruited that the tunnel would cost "10 to 20 million yuan … }} ----