S vs Turf - 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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A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
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A piece of such a layer cut from the soil and used to make a lawn.
(label) A sod of peat used as fuel.
(label) The territory claimed by a person, gang, etc. as their own.
A racetrack; or the sport of racing horses.
to create a lawn by laying turfs
(Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
(business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
(business) To cancel a project or product.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun turf is
a layer of earth covered with grass; sod.As a verb turf is
to create a lawn by laying turfs.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}turf
English
Noun
Derived terms
* artificial turf * AstroTurf * turf accountant * turf bank * turfen * turfyVerb
(en verb)- Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
- The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.