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S vs Fared - What's the difference?

s | fared |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb fared is

(fare).

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=··· , 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 ----

    fared

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fare)

    • Anagrams

    *

    fare

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
  • Money paid for a transport ticket.
  • A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  • Food and drink.
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
  • (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
    • Synonyms
    * (journey) see * (sense, prostitute's client) see
    References
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (archaic) To go, travel.
  • To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
  • * Denham
    • So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • To eat, dine.
  • * Bible, Luke xvi. 19
    • There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
  • (impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
    • We shall see how it will fare with him.
  • * Milton
    • So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
    Derived terms
    * afare * farer * farewell * seafaring * spacefaring * warfare * wayfarer * welfare

    Derived terms

    * farewell * fareworthy * standard fare * warfare * welfare * workfare

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----