Words that start with S

Sis forSee

You see something if you can tell it is there, using your eyes. Being able to see means you have the sense of sight. Someone who cannot see is blind.

Verbs

Yoppy / CC BY-SA

Sis forSeed

Baby plants grow from seeds. If you bury a seed in soil and keep it moist, after a few days it will crack open and grow. Roots grow first from the seed, then the leaves. The seeds in the picture are sunflower seeds, just beginning to sprout.

Plant parts

Giannis Angelakis / CC BY-SA

Sis forSeer

A seer is a person who can see the future, or who has profound insight or knowledge. A similar word to seer is prophet.

Jobs

Peat Bakke / CC BY-SA

Sis forSeesaw

A seesaw, or teeter totter, is a long board that is held up at a pivot point in the middle. When one end goes up, the other end goes down. You play with it by having one person sitting at each end, and you both go up and down in turn.

Toys and games

Liz West / CC BY-SA

Sis forSegment

A segment is a part of something that can be divided off naturally, without cutting. Oranges and mandarins can be easily broken into segments. You can clearly see the segments of the mandarin in the picture. Segments can also be used to describe parts of some kinds of a creepy crawly like a millipedes body, where there are clear separations between the parts.

Parts

Yun Huang Yong / CC BY-SA

Sis forSell

You sell something when you give it to someone else in exchange for some money. The man in the picture is in a shop selling some goods to a customer. The opposite of sell is buy. The past tense of sell is sold.

Financial, Verbs

Photo of the send button on a fax machine

Dave Crosby / CC BY-SA

Sis forSend

You send something when you make it go somewhere. You send a parcel by taking it to a post office. You send out your troops by ordering them to go.

Verbs