S vs Jordan - What's the difference?
s | jordan |
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 country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
* 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
derived from the male given name.
used since mid-20th century.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun jordan is
(obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists.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=? }}jordan
English
(wikipedia Jordan)Proper noun
(s)- I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.