S vs Fluttering - What's the difference?
s | fluttering |
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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Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
* 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
* 1844 , Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life (page 59)
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun fluttering is
rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.As a verb fluttering is
.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=? }}fluttering
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite
- Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings , together with low clatterings, approached her ear.
