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S vs Despatch - What's the difference?

s | despatch |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun despatch is

(see also wikipedia's ).

As a verb despatch is

.

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 ----

    despatch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (see also Wikipedia's )
  • * 1843 , , The Conquest of Mexico , Volume 1, 1957, page 31,
    • The courier, bearing his despatches in the form of a hieroglyphical painting, ran with them to the first station,.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 citation , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch -case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}

    Verb

    (es)
  • *1833 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 8-9, page 31,
  • *:She fainted, was got into bed, and a messenger was despatched for me.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}