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S vs Passant - What's the difference?

s | passant |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun passant is

passer-by.

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 ----

    passant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * passaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry, of a four-legged animal) Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground.
  • * , III.i:
    • He them espying, gan himselfe prepare, / And on his arme addresse his goodly shield / That bore a Lion passant in a golden field.
  • (obsolete) Currently in use; in vogue.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.7:
    • Many opinions are passant concerning the basilisk, or little king of serpents, commonly called the cockatrice [...].
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