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S vs Gargoyle - What's the difference?

s | gargoyle |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun gargoyle is

a carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.

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 ----

    gargoyle

    English

    (wikipedia gargoyle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
  • * 1906 , , The Trampling of the Lilies? , page 110
    • From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead.
  • Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
  • A fictional winged monster.
  • * 2005 , Mel Odom, The Secret Explodes? , page 200
    • Almost immediately one of the gargoyles' swept down from the sky and attacked him. The ' gargoyle' s momentum drove them both over the side.
  • (slang, pejorative) An ugly woman.

    • Synonyms

    * (any decorative carved grotesque figure) grotesque, hunky punk * (ugly woman) crone, hag

    Derived terms

    *gargoylish