S vs Rook - What's the difference?
s | rook |
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 European bird, Corvus frugilegus , of the crow family.
* Pennant
A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
(British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
To cheat or swindle.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
(rare) A castle or other fortification.
mist; fog; roke
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun rook is
skirt.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}rook
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rok, roke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The rook should be treated as the farmer's friend.
- (Wycherley)
Synonyms
* (swindler) swindler, cheatHypernyms
* (bird) bird * (firecracker) firecrackerVerb
(en verb)- Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.