S vs Meager - What's the difference?
s | meager |
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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Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
* {{quote-book
, year=1607
, author=Thomas Walkington
, title=The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ...
, page=54
* {{quote-book
, year=1637
, author=William Shakespeare
, title=The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke ...
, page=E5
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective meager is
having little flesh; lean; thin.As a verb meager is
to make lean.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=? }}meager
English
(wikipedia meager)Alternative forms
* meagre (Commonwealth English)Adjective
(er)- A meager piece of cake in one bite.
citation, passage=...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...}}
citation, passage=Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...}}