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S vs Saucer - What's the difference?

s | saucer |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun saucer is

a small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.

As a verb saucer is

to pour (tea, etc) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.

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 ----

    saucer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
  • An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer).
    • The saucer -shaped object could have been a UFO.
  • (obsolete) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
  • A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

    • Related terms

    * flying saucer * sauce * saucer eyes

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.

    • Anagrams

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