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SOSS

Definition: SOSS

SOSS

Intransitive verb

1. To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.

Noun

1. Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

2. A heavy fall.

3. A lazy fellow.

Transitive verb

1. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Abbreviations & Acronyms: SOSS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SOSS

EnglishSub orbital single stageN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: SOSS

Non-English Usage: "SOSS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Bavarian (gravy, sauce).

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Commercial Usage: SOSS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Edited by Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, and Richard C. Fording (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SOSS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

soss hinge

32

soss

11

hinge invisible soss

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SOSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "o-s-s-s"

-1 letter: sos.

-2 letters: os, so.

 Words containing the letters "o-s-s-s"
 

+1 letter: stoss.

 

+2 letters: bassos, bosses, cussos, dosses, fossas, fosses, josses, kussos, lassos, losses, mosses, obsess, posses, souses, sysops, tosses.

 

+3 letters: assoils, assorts, bossies, bossism, cossets, crosses, dossals, dossels, dossers, dossils, drosses, essoins, flosses, fossils, gessoes, glossas, glosses, gossans, gossips, grosses, hostess, hyssops, koussos, lassoes, lessons, lessors, loesses, mossers, mousses, mysosts, osmoses, osmosis, osseins, osseous, ostoses, ostosis, oyesses, possess, possets, possums, prosses, samosas, saroses, scissor, scouses, seasons, seisors, sensors, serosas, session, skoshes, sloshes, sonless, soroses, sorosis, spouses, sycoses, sycosis, tossers, tossups, tussors.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SOSS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53495353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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