S vs Drake - What's the difference?
s | drake |
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 mayfly used as fishing bait.
A dragon.
* J. A. Harrison
(historical) A small piece of artillery.
* Clarendon
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a proper noun drake is
, notably of (1540-1596).s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}drake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Derived terms
* ducks and drakes * sheldrakeEtymology 2
From (etyl) and (etyl) Drache.Noun
(en noun)- Beowulf resolves to kill the drake .
- Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes , made them stagger.
