S vs Hookah - What's the difference?
s | hookah |
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 pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
* 1831 , The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction :
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
* 1960 , , To Kill a Mockingbird , chapter 9:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun hookah is
a pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.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=? }}hookah
English
(wikipedia hookah)Alternative forms
* hukkah * hookaNoun
(en noun)- In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah .
- When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.