S vs Recoil - What's the difference?
s | recoil |
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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A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
The state or condition of having recoiled.
* F. W. Robertson
(firearms) The amount of energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
(obsolete) To retire, withdraw.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
* Milton
* De Quincey
To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun recoil is
a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.As a verb recoil is
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Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}recoil
English
(wikipedia recoil)Noun
(en noun)- the recoil of nature, or of the blood
- The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
Verb
- that rude rout
- Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle .
- Evil on itself shall back recoil .
- The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
- He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
- (Shakespeare)