S vs Tennis - 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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(label) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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(label) A match in this sport.
* 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)
(obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
* (Shakespeare)
* (1800-1859)
(dated) To play tennis.
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun tennis is
tennis.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=? }}tennis
Noun
(en-noun)George Goodchild
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis , were familiar to all London.
Derived terms
* football tennis * lawn tennis * real tennis * tennis ball * tennis court * tennis player * tennis racket * tennis racquetSee also
* table tennis or ping pongVerb
- (Spenser)