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S vs Lapidary - What's the difference?

s | lapidary |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun lapidary is

a person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.

As an adjective lapidary is

pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} 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 ----

    lapidary

    English

    (wikipedia lapidary)

    Noun

    (lapidaries)
  • A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.
  • :2005 Peter G. Read, "Gemmology"
  • :*in the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones.
  • An expert in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
  • (archaic) A treatise on precious stones.

    • Derived terms

    * lapidary's lathe * lapidary's mill * lapidary's wheel

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
  • Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting.
  • :* 2000': The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such '''lapidary propositions as “What's done cannot be undone,” which was irrefutably correct. — Karen Armstrong, ''The Battle for God (Harper 2004, p. 71)