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S vs Unwound - What's the difference?

s | unwound |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb unwound is

(unwind).

s

Translingual

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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 ----

    unwound

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unwind)

    • unwind

    English

    Verb

  • To wind off; to loose or separate; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread, to unwind a ball of yarn
    • Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package?
  • (obsolete) To disentangle
  • * 1836 , , The Works of Richard Hooker , Volume 4, page 27:
    • ... but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them, ...
  • (slang) To relax; to chill out; as, to rest and relieve of stress
    • After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.
  • To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

    • Related terms

    * wind