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S vs Picked - What's the difference?

s | picked |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb picked is

(pick).

As an adjective picked is

(obsolete) pointed; sharp.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

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 ----

    picked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pick)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pointed; sharp
  • * Chapman
    • Picked and polished.
  • * Mortimer
    • Let the stake be made picked at the top.
  • (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
    • the picked dogfish
  • (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 13:
    • He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
  • * 1596 , , I. i. 193:
    • Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
    (Webster 1913)