W vs Curtain - What's the difference?
w | curtain |
The twenty-third letter of the .
The first letter of (l) allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
voiced labial-velar approximant
Image:Latin W.png, Capital and lowercase versions of W , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter W.png, Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur
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A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
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A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=2 (label) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
Death.
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
(label) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
A flag; an ensign.
As a letter w
is the twenty-third letter of the.As a symbol w
is (label) symbol for tungsten.As a noun curtain is
a piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc to offer privacy and keep out light.As a verb curtain is
to cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.w
Translingual
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Symbol
(Voiced labio-velar approximant) (head)See also
(Latn-script) * Turned: * * {{Letter , page=W , NATO=Whiskey , Morse=·–– , Character=W , Braille=? }}curtain
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
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- Captain Rense'', beleagring the Citie of ''Errona for us,.
- For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
- (Shakespeare)