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S vs Whetstone - What's the difference?

s | whetstone |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun whetstone is

a location in barnet, london, england.

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 ----

    whetstone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 88-89
    • It was as if a stone were ground to dust; as if white sparks flew from a livid whetstone , which was his spine; as if the switchback railway, having swooped to the depths, fell, fell, fell.
  • (computing) A benchmark for evaluating the power of a computer.

    • Related terms

    * stone, whet

    See also

    * grind, grindstone * hone