S vs Husk - What's the difference?
s | husk |
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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The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
* The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked , "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched. — (Naomi Novik), "His Majesty's Dragon"
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun husk is
the dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.As a verb husk is
to remove husks from or husk can be to say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.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=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}husk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l). Alternate etymology derives husk from Low German .)Noun
(wikipedia husk) (en noun)- A coconut has a very thick husk .
- His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.