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S vs Ranch - What's the difference?

s | ranch |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun ranch is

a large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.

As a verb ranch is

to operate a ranch; engage in ranching.

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=··· , 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 ----

    ranch

    English

    Noun

    (ranches)
  • A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
  • A small farm that cultivates vegetables and/or livestock.
  • A house or property on a ranch land.
  • Ranch dressing.

    • Derived terms

    * rancher * ranchhand * ranchslider, ranch slider

    Verb

    (es)
  • To operate a ranch; engage in ranching.
    • Formally the widow still ranches''', in fact she leaves all ' ranching to the foreman
  • To work on a ranch
  • :: ''Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman