S vs Fireman - What's the difference?
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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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(firefighting) Someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
(rail transport) A man who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive.
* ca. 1913 The wreck of Old 97 [ballad, Blue Ridge Mountains], verse 3:
(rail transport) By extension of the above, an assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
(baseball) A relief pitcher.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun fireman is
(firefighting) someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.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=? }}fireman
English
(wikipedia fireman)Noun
(firemen)- He looked around his cab at his black greasy fireman, saying 'shovel on a little more coal, and when we cross that White Oak Mountain, you can watch Old 97 roll'.