S vs Outland - What's the difference?
s | outland |
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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Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
* 1921 , Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britain's daughter: two plays , page 74:
* 1966 , Donald Davidson, Poems, 1922-1961 , page 107:
(used with ethnic nationalities) Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
* 1919 , William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy , page 402:
* 1949 , The Reader's Digest , volume 54, page 101:
* 1980 , New Society , volume 51, page 546:
* 2001 June 12, "Mike Echo Mike" (username), "Why do I fly !!!", in rec.aviation.student, Usenet :
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective outland is
provincial: from a province (of the same land).As a noun outland is
(especially in the plural) any outlying area of a country; the provinces.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}outland
English
Adjective
(-)- These outland Romans will not kill us all If you permit them to do their governing, Which is so dear to them, over you and us.
- I heard strange pipes when I was young, / Piping songs of an outland tongue.
- Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
- When the "outland Danes ," who live in other countries, return by the thousand for the summer festivals, they gather first in the grim 13th-century fortress of Kronborg, [...]
- To China, it is "Chinese territory under British administration" : its citizens are regarded as "home Chinese," not "outland Chinese ," and can travel freely to the mother country.
- And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe [...]