S vs Sorta - What's the difference?
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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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(informal) Sort of; somewhat; not quite.
* 1912 , Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction , Volume 60,
* 1993 July, Sort of a Hero'', in '' ,
(colloquial) sort of.
* 2001 , Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide ,
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adverb sorta is
(informal) sort of; somewhat; not quite.As a contraction sorta is
(colloquial) sort of.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=? }}sorta
English
Adverb
(-)- The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around
page 680,
- 'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. '
page 34,
- In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.
Synonyms
* kindaContraction
- There's gotta be some sorta explanation.
page 97,
- He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?"
- "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.