S vs Veil - What's the difference?
s | veil |
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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Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51
* Milton
A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
* Shakespeare
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
The calyptra of mosses.
A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
(zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
(mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
To don, or garb with, a veil.
To conceal as with a veil.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun veil is
something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.As a verb veil is
to don, or garb with, a veil.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=? }}veil
English
Noun
(en noun)- The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
- She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
- [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
- Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
Verb
- The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.