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S vs Rooftop - What's the difference?

s | rooftop |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun rooftop is

(roof).

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 ----

    rooftop

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Atop a roof; on a roof
    • In recent years, we've seen Bangkok become the unofficial rooftop bar capital of the world.
  • :: —Thailand's Islands and Beaches , Lonely Planet

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (somewhat formal) The area atop a roof
    • Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)
  • :: —Multicultural Books for Primary Grades , Liz Rothlein
  • the top layer of a roof, the material covering or composing a roof
    • The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop .
  • :: —The Chocolate Shop Perverts , Ernest Alanki

    • Usage notes

    As it refers specifically to the area atop the roof or to the top area of the roof, "rooftop" is not always synonymous with the entire "roof". For instance, "the rooftop blew off the house" would (probably unintentionally) imply some lower level of the roof remained. Compare similar location words such as desktop.

    Synonyms

    * roof

    Related terms

    * desktop * hilltop * housetop * mountaintop * tabletop * treetop

    Derived terms

    * shout from the rooftops * rooftop of the world, an epithet of Tibet