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S vs Leisure - What's the difference?

s | leisure |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun leisure is

freedom provided by the cessation of activities.

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=ยทยทยท , 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 ----

    leisure

    English

    Noun

  • Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
  • Time free from work or duties.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
    • Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
  • * 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
    • This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
  • Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
  • * Dryden
    • He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.

    Related terms

    * leisurely

    See also

    * ease * recreation

    External links

    * (wikipedia "leisure") English words not following the I before E except after C rule