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S vs Falter - What's the difference?

s | falter |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun falter is

butterfly.

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 ----

    falter

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • unsteadiness.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To waver or be unsteady.
  • * Wiseman
    • He found his legs falter .
  • (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
  • * Byron
    • And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
  • * Milton
    • With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
  • To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
  • To stumble.
  • (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
  • *
    • And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
  • To hesitate in purpose or action.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
  • To cleanse or sift, as barley.
    • (Halliwell)

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