S vs Tar - 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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(uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
Coal tar.
(uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
(slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
black tar, a form of heroin
To coat with tar.
To besmirch.
(computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
(computing) A file produced by such a program.
(computing) To create a tar archive.
(musical instruments) a Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a proper noun tar is
a village in hungary.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=? }}tar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at tree.Noun
(en noun)- (Jonathan Swift)
Derived terms
* coal tar * mineral tar * tar board * Tar Heel * tar water * tarmacadam, tarmac * tarpaulin * wood tarVerb
- Although he was found innocent, the allegations had tarred his name.