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United States:. . In Unicode the capital S is codepoint U+0053 and the lowercase s is U+0073. Rush River (Virginia), a river. The ligature of ſs (or ſz) became the German ess-tsett ( ß ). Rush River (North Dakota), a river]. The use of the long s died out by the beginning of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion with the minuscule f. Rush River (Minnesota), a river. For example, "sinfulness" is rendered as "ſinfulneſs" using the long s. Rush County, Kansas, a county. An alternative form of s, ſ, called the long s or medial s, was used at the beginning or in the middle of the word; the modern form, the short or terminal s, was used at the end of the word. Rush Springs, Oklahoma, Grady County. Rush City, Minnesota, Chisago County, a town. The trigraph "sch" is pronounced similarly to the English digraph "sh," though with rounded lips. Rush Center, Kansas, Rush County, a town. Care must be taken for incompletely anglicized words from German and proper names from that language. Rush, New York, Monroe County, a town. In Etruscan and Latin, the [s] value was maintained, and only in modern languages has the letter been used to represent other sounds, such as voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] in Hungarian and German (before p, t) or the voiced alveolar fricative [z] in English, French and German (in English rise; in French lisez (="read" imperative plural); in German lesen (="to read"). Rush, Colorado, El Paso County, Colorado, a town. The name "sigma" probably comes from the Semitic letter "Sâmek" (fish; spine) and not "Šîn". Rush, Dublin, a small seaside town. Greek did not have this sound, so the Greek sigma (Σ) came to represent [s]. Rush Lake, Saskatchewan. The original form may have represented a picture of female breasts. Rush Lake, Ontario. Senator from West Virginia. In most writing systems that use the Latin alphabet, as well as the International Phonetic Alphabet, the letter [s] corresponds to a voiceless alveolar sibilant. Holt, Sr., U.S. Its name in English is ess, or es- in compounds such as es-hook. Rush D. S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Representative from New Jersey. Ѕ, ѕ — Cyrillic letter Dze. Holt, Jr., U.S. ß — the German Eszett or "sharp s". Rush D. The same symbol is often used as an allographic variant of the Dollar sign. Naval officer [1]. It is written with two vertical lines. William Rees Rush, 1857-1940, U.S. (Cifrão) is the symbol of the former portuguese currency (Escudo). William Rush, 1756-1833, American sculptor. $ — the dollar sign. Tom Rush, American singer. ∫, ∫ — the integral sign. Richard Rush (director), American film director. ʃ — Esh (used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for voiceless postalveolar fricative). Benjamin Rush. ſ — long s. Richard Rush, American statesman and son of Dr. Ƨ, ƨ — reversed S (used in Zhuang transliteration). Otis Rush, American musician. Ṩ, ṩ — S with dots below and above. Kareem Rush, NBA basketball player for the Charlotte Bobcats. Ṧ, ṧ — S with caron and dot above. Jennifer Rush, American singer. Ṥ, ṥ — S with acute and dot above. Ian Rush, Welsh footballer. Ṣ, ṣ — S with dot below (used in Indic transliteration). Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor. Ṡ, ṡ — S with dot above (used in old Irish Gaelic). Bobby Rush (musician), American musician. ʂ — S with hook (used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for voiceless retroflex fricative). Representative from Illinois. Ș, ș — S with comma below (used in Romanian and Turkish). Bobby Rush, U.S. Š, š — S-caron. Benjamin Rush, founding father of the United States. Ş, ş — S-cedilla. Barbara Rush, American actor. Ŝ, ŝ — S-circumflex. Rush (video game series), an arcade racing series. In stereochemistry, S (sinister) signifies counterclockwise arrangement of substituents around a carbon atom using the Cahn Ingold Prelog priority rules. Rush (computer gaming), in real-time strategy computer games, a fast attack at the beginning of a game. The S-block is a group of chemical elements in the periodic table. a robotic dog in the Mega Man series, see List of Mega Man characters (Classic series). S is the symbol for the chemical element sulfur. Rush (single), a song by Big Audio Dynamite II. In chemistry,
A 1983 Italian science fiction film, directed by Anthony Richmond, with Conrad Nichols, Laura Trotter, Gordon Mitchell. In thermodynamics, S stands for entropy. Rush (1991 film), a crime film directed by Lili Fini Zanuck. s is sometimes used to represent a position, distance or displacement function, or stands for separation. Rush Medical College and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. In ultracentrifugation, S is the symbol for the Svedberg, a unit of sedimentation rate. In poker, a winning streak usually characterized by a sequence of unusually lucky cards. In astronomy, S is the symbol for the spat, an unit of distance (equal to 1012 m). Music, where it means to play faster than the indicated tempo, usually accidental and undesirable. In the SI system, S is the symbol for siemens, the SI derived unit for electric conductance. Also called "formal rush". In physics,
a brand name of alkyl nitrites, sold legally as a "room deodorizer" or "video head cleaner" but widely used as a recreational drug. A blackboard bold represents the sedenions. Adrenaline, where an "adrenaline rush" is an energetic and slightly euphoric feeling that occurs when something scary or dangerous happens, associated with recreational drugs. s often represents an arclength. In botany it refers to Juncus, a semiaquatic grass-like plant of the family Juncaceae, in Ireland it can be woven into baskets Basket, used as thatch to roof houses Thatching, or used to make items such as a Brigid's cross. Hence, the long s is used as the integral sign. Rush (American football). S may represent a sum. Rush (band), a Canadian progressive rock band. In mathematics,
In weather forecasting and geography, S stands for south, one of the 4 cardinal directions. ticker symbol of Sears, Roebuck and Co. ticker symbol for Sprint Nextel Corporation and formerly the U.S. In finance, S is the U.S. S may be used to represent savings. S may stands for supply. In economics,
On pc's, Ctrl-S, and Mac OS, Command-S, saves the open document.
In education, S stands for a satisfactory grade. U is sometimes used for Sunday to avoid confusing it with Saturday. In calendars, S is often the abbreviation for Saturday or Sunday, or the month September. Canon cameras use Tv instead of S. In photography, some SLR cameras (such as Konica Minolta cameras) use S to signify shutter priority mode, where the user sets the shutter speed and the camera determines the aperture. In international license plate codes, S stands for Sweden. In the United Kingdom, S stands for Sheffield. In Canada, S stands for Saskatchewan. As the first letter of a postal code,
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