S vs Rum - What's the difference?
s | rum |
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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(uncountable) A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses
(countable) A serving of rum
(countable) A kind or brand of rum
(obsolete, slang) A queer or odd person or thing.
(obsolete, slang) A country parson.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) fine, excellent, valuable
(British, colloquial, dated) strange, peculiar
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun rum is
room.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=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}rum
English
(wikipedia rum)Etymology 1
Perhaps shortened from rumbullion.Noun
(en noun)- The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
- Jake tossed down three rums .
- Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums .
- No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums .
Etymology 2
Formerly rome'', a slang word for ''good ; possibly of Romany origin; compare .Adjective
(rummer)- a rum''' idea; a '''rum fellow
- (Dickens)
Synonyms
*See also
* rum goQuotations
* 1951 , ,Google Books*: "Can't you see him?" *: "Well, I almost thought I did—for a moment. It's such a rum light." * 1976 , , All Things Wise and Wonderful ,
page 346*: "She's as 'appy as Larry, but she'll neither move nor eat. It's a rum' 'un, isn't it?" It was very ' rum indeed.
