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S vs Soaking - What's the difference?

s | soaking |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb soaking is

.

As a noun soaking is

immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

As an adjective soaking is

extremely wet; saturated.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

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=··· , 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 ----

    soaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
    • 1906' ''"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a '''soaking for our pains".'' — Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy , Chapter 2.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely wet; saturated.
    • 1847' ''I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still '''soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre , Chapter 5.