S vs Hoar - What's the difference?
s | hoar |
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 white or greyish-white colour.
Hoariness; antiquity.
* Burke
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
* Spenser
(poetic) Hoarily bearded.
* 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
* Byron
(obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
(obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun hoar is
a white or greyish-white colour.As an adjective hoar is
of a white or greyish-white colour.As a verb hoar is
(obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.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=? }}hoar
English
Noun
(en noun)- (BDCADC)
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Adjective
(-)- hoar waters
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
- Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
- Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
- Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
- old trees with trunks all hoar
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Derived terms
* hoarfrost * hoary * hoaredSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.