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S vs Victual - What's the difference?

s | victual |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun victual is

food fit for human consumption.

As a verb victual is

to provide with food; to provision.

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 ----

    victual

    English

    Alternative forms

    * victuall (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Food fit for human consumption.
  • * Knolles
    • He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual .
  • * Tennyson
    • There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand / Bare victual for the movers.
  • (Scotland) grain of any kind

    • Verb

  • To provide with food; to provision.
  • To lay in food supplies.
  • To eat.

    • Related terms

    * victualer or victualler