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S vs Forme - What's the difference?

s | forme |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb forme is

.

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 ----

    forme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, or, archaic)
  • (historical, printing) One side of a sheet, comprising four quarto pages or two folio pages.
  • * 1978 , David A. Bloestein, Introduction'', , David A. Bloestein (editor), ''Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn , page 47,
    • Both these formes , with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.
  • * 1994 , Jay L. Halio, Introduction'', Jay L. Halio (editor), , ''The First Quarto of King Lear , page 21,
    • Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes .
  • * 2011 , Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text , page 41,
    • In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme' and another. (A '''forme''' is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because '''formes''' do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto ' forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.
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