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S vs Hearth - What's the difference?

s | hearth |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun hearth is

a brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.

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 ----

    hearth

    English

    (wikipedia hearth)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
  • The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
  • A symbol for home or family life.
  • (lb) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.

    • Synonyms

    * (open recess at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built) fireplace

    Derived terms

    * hearth and home * hearthrug * hearthstone

    Anagrams

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