S vs Untie - What's the difference?
s | untie |
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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To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb untie is
to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.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=? }}untie
English
Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
