S vs Curfew - What's the difference?
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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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Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
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The time when such restriction begins.
A signal indicating this time.
A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
(historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.95:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun curfew is
any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.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=? }}curfew
English
Alternative forms
* cover-few (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia curfew) (en noun)Hurricane Sandy," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- I have my lodging neere unto a tower, where both evening and morning a very great bell doth chime Ave marie'' and ''Cover-few , which jangling doth even make the tower to shake.