S vs Iceberg - What's the difference?
s | iceberg |
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 huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
(US, slang) An aloof person.
(figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.
* 2013 , The Economist, ''
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun iceberg is
a huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf.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=? }}iceberg
English
(wikipedia iceberg)Noun
(en noun)- The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank .
How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back:
- He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg .