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S vs Whin - What's the difference?

s | whin |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun whin is

gorse; furze.

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=··· , 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 ----

    whin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Gorse; furze.
  • * 1790 , '', 1828, Thomas Park (editor), ''Works of the British Poets , Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65,
  • By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins , and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), , 1995, Canongate Books, page 38,
  • And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
  • The plant woad-waxen.
  • (Gray)
  • Whinstone.
  • Derived terms

    * moor whin * petty whin * whin bruiser * whin sparrow * whin thrush (Webster 1913)