She vs Sue - What's the difference?
she | sue |
(personal) A female person or animal.
* , II.ix:
A ship.
(personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
(personal, nonstandard) .
* , Flow , 1990:
A female.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare:
* 2000 , Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1-2, page 189:
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
As nouns the difference between she and sue
is that she is a female while Sue is a Mary Sue (type of character in fiction).As a pronoun she
is a female person or animal.As an initialism SHE
is initialism of standard hydrogen electrode.As a verb sue is
to follow.As a proper noun Sue is
a diminutive of Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.she
English
(wikipedia she)Pronoun
- Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].
- I asked Mary, but she''' said that '''she didn't know.
- She could do forty knots in good weather.
- She''' is a beautiful boat, isn't '''she ?
- She''' only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but '''she' s durable.
- Optimal experience is thus something that we make'' happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she''' has built, higher than any ' she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
See also
(English personal pronouns)Noun
(en noun)- Pat is definitely a she .
- And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
- A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
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Verb
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.