S vs Fuzz - What's the difference?
s | fuzz |
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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A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
* 1895 , Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly , page 352:
A blurred image.
(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
(obsolete) A state of befuddlement.
* 1784 , Jonathan Swift, "Journal to Stella", The works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift , page 54:
To make fuzzy.
To become fuzzy.
(dated) To make drunk.
The police.
* 2009 , , 0:26:17:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun fuzz is
a frizzy mass of hair or fibre or fuzz can be the police.As a verb fuzz is
to make fuzzy.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}fuzz
English
(wikipedia fuzz)Etymology 1
* Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source * Some dictionaries suggest aNoun
- His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.
- I think I'm in a fuzz , and don't know what I ?ay, I never ?aw the like.
Verb
(es)- (Wood)
Etymology 2
UnknownNoun
(-)- Let's get the hell out of here before the fuzz turns up
