S vs Lathe - What's the difference?
s | lathe |
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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To invite; bid; ask.
(obsolete) An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
(obsolete) A granary; a barn.
To shape with a lathe.
(computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb lathe is
to invite; bid; ask or lathe can be to shape with a lathe.As a noun lathe is
(obsolete) an administrative division of the county of kent, in england, from the anglo-saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century or lathe can be a machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.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=? }}lathe
English
(wikipedia lathe)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lathen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
(etyl) . More at lade.Noun
(en noun)- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe .
- Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe , whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
- (Chaucer)