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S vs Pinkerton - What's the difference?

s | pinkerton |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun pinkerton is

for someone from a place of that name near dunbar.

As a noun pinkerton is

(dated|countable) an operative employed by the (1819-1884).

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 ----

    pinkerton

    English

    Proper noun

    (Pinkertons)
  • for someone from a place of that name near Dunbar.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, countable) An operative employed by the (1819-1884).
  • *1950 , " Kiss the Donkey," Time , 4 Sep.,
  • *:He joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton .

    • Derived terms

    * Pinkertonian