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S vs Coted - What's the difference?

s | coted |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb coted is

(cote).

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=··· , 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 ----

    coted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cote)

    • cote

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the (etyl) cote, the feminine form of . Cognate to Dutch kot.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cottage or hut.
  • A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
  • * Milton
    • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes .
    Related terms
    * dovecote * sheepcote
    Synonyms
    * shed

    Etymology 2

    See quote.

    Verb

    (cot)
  • (obsolete) To quote.
    • (Udall)

    Etymology 3

    Probably related to (etyl) .

    Verb

    (cot)
  • To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
    • A dog cotes a hare.
    (Drayton)
  • * Shakespeare
    • We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
  • * 1825 , , The Talisman , A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
    • [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.
    (Webster 1913)

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