S vs Cab - What's the difference?
s | cab |
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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A taxi; a taxicab.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty)
To travel by taxicab.
An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet; the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an initialism cab is
(us) (civil aeronautics board).s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}cab
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Captain went out in the cab' all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the ' cab . Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!