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S vs Chargeable - What's the difference?

s | chargeable |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective chargeable is

that may be charged to an account.

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 ----

    chargeable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That may be charged to an account.
  • (rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
  • * 1865 , Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law (volume 2, page 380)
    • Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder.

    Quotations

    * 1859 John Thomas Arlidge - On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane *: The law provides for the occasional visitation of pauper lunatics in asylums chargeable to parishes, by a certain number of the officers . . . * 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common *: These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.