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S vs Splay - What's the difference?

s | splay |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb splay is

to display; to spread.

As an adjective splay is

displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.

As a noun splay is

a slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

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 ----

    splay

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To display; to spread.
  • * Gascoigne
    • our ensigns splayed
  • To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
  • To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
  • To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
  • * M. Arnold
    • Something splay , something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

    • Anagrams

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