os

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/ˌoʊ ˈɛs/

noun 8adj 5name 3adv 1

Collocations

ADJ.

crazy, favorite, overseas

VERB + OS

adding, got, like, located, trip, went

OS + NOUN

'administrator, browser, cayenne, cuckmere, grid, itself, nt262741, pepper

PREP.

in, through, with

ADV.

really

Definitions

name

Initialism of Owen Sound.

The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).

Initialism of Old Saxon.

adj

Initialism of outsize, clothes for large people.

Initialism of oversize.

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.

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

Initialism of over shoulder.

adv

Initialism of overseas.

You did the overseas trip. You went OS.

I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of verteb

bone

noun — a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that

osmium

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

You did the overseas trip. You went OS.

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I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].

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We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.

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Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.

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

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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 int

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, os is marked as informal, UK, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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