S vs Congee - What's the difference?
s | congee |
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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(obsolete) Formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(archaic) A bow.
*, II.17:
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun congee is
(obsolete) formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking or congee can be a type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.s
Translingual
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}congee
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* conge *Noun
(en noun)- So courteous conge both did giue and take, / With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
- As salutations, reverences, or conges , by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous.
- “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee , nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.