S vs Dud - What's the difference?
s | dud |
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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(informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
Something that doesn't function properly
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(obsolete) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
A loser, an unlucky person
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun dud is
(informal) a device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.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=? }}dud
English
Noun
(en noun)Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September 2014:
- At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud .