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os

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name/ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
  1. 1

    Initialism of Owen Sound.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

  2. 2

    Initialism of The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

  3. 3

    Initialism of Old Saxon.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

adj/ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
  1. 1

    Initialism of outsize, clothes for large people.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

  2. 2

    Initialism of oversize.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

  3. 3

    Initialism of Old Style, a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of offscreen, indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.abbreviationalt-ofnot-comparable

  5. 5

    Initialism of over shoulder.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

adv/ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
  1. 1

    Initialism of overseas.Australiaabbreviationalt-of

    • You did the overseas trip. You went OS.
    • I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].
noun/ˌoʊ ˈɛs/
  1. 1

    An Ordnance Survey map.UK

    • We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
    • Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.
  2. 2

    Initialism of operating system.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

    • I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
  3. 3

    Initialism of ordinary seaman.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

  4. 4

    Initialism of oppidan scholar.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

noun/ɒs//ɑs/
  1. 1

    Synonym of bone.

    • I was once, I remember, called to a Patient, who had received a violent Contuſion in his Tibia, by which the exterior Cutis was lacerated, ſo that there was a profuſe ſanguinary Diſcharge; and the interior Membranes were ſo divellicated, th
noun/ɒs//ɑs/
  1. 1

    An opening or entrance to a passage, particularly one at either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).sometimes

    • […] monocolpate (“unisulcate”) pollen grains still have a continuous aperture membrane devoid of special openings (ora) in the exine for the emergence of the pollen tube.
noun/ɒs//ɑs/
  1. 1

    An osar or esker.

noun/əʊz//oʊz/
  1. 1

    Alternative form of o's.alt-ofalternativerare

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