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S vs Tourniquet - What's the difference?

s | tourniquet |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun tourniquet is

a tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

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 ----

    tourniquet

    English

    ("tourniquet" on Wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
  • *
    • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
  • A turnstile.