S vs Sputtered - What's the difference?
s | sputtered |
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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(sputter)
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
* Congreve
* Jonathan Swift
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
* Dryden
To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
(physics) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
(physics) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb sputtered is
(sputter).s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}sputtered
English
Verb
(head)sputter
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
- To sputter out the basest accusations.
- Like the green wood sputtering in the flame.
- In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. -Swift.