S vs Crimson - What's the difference?
s | crimson |
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 deep, slightly bluish red.
* (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having a deep red colour.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
*1950 , (Mervyn Peake),
*:Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.
Having loose morals.
to blush
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
* Shakespeare
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun crimson is
a deep, slightly bluish red.As an adjective crimson is
having a deep red colour.As a verb crimson is
to blush.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=? }}crimson
English
(wikipedia crimson)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia)- To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson .
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* crimson lakeVerb
(en verb)- Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she'd be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss.
- Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.