S vs Ruff - What's the difference?
s | ruff |
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 gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia, Philomachus pugnax .
# A male of the species. (The female is a reeve).
a small freshwater fish; a pope.
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
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Anything formed with plaits or flutings, like the frill.
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
(obsolete) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
* (rfdate) L'Estrange
(obsolete) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
* (rfdate) Latimer
(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
(engineering) A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
To ruffle; to disorder.
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
(hawking) To hit (the prey) without fixing it.
(colloquial)
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun ruff is
reputation.s
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=? }}ruff
English
Etymology 1
A shortening of (ruffle)Noun
(en noun)- I reared this flower; / Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread.
- How many princes in the ruff of all their glory, have been taken down from the head of a conquering army to the wheel of the victor's chariot!
- to ruffle it out in a riotous ruff
Verb
(en verb)- (Spenser)