S vs Droop - What's the difference?
s | droop |
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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(lb) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
*
* (Sylvester Stallone) (1946-)
(lb) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
(lb) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
(lb) To allow to droop or sink.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
* (1809-1892)
something which is limp or sagging;
a condition or posture of drooping
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb droop is
(lb) to sink or hang downward; to sag.As a noun droop is
something which is limp or sagging;.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}droop
English
(wikipedia droop)Verb
(en verb)- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop , the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
- I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
- I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
- Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
- when day drooped
Noun
(en noun)- He walked with a discouraged droop .