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S vs Silvery - What's the difference?

s | silvery |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective silvery is

resembling silver in color, shiny white.

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 ----

    silvery

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • All the enameled race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • Sprinkled or covered with silver.
  • Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
  • Derived terms

    * (silvery acacia) * (silvery flying fox) () * (silvery gade) * silvery gibbon * (silvery gull) * (l) * (silvery hair-grass) * (silvery hair-tail) * (silvery honeysuckle) () * (silvery oak) * (silvery pout) () * (silvery salmon) * (silvery shrew mole) * silvery-tongued