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Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of Latin oculus sinister.
Symbol
OS
- (optometry) the left eye
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English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
OS
- (sports) Abbreviation of Owen Sound.
- The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
- Related terms: OSNI
Adjective
OS (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of outsize (clothes for large people)
- Abbreviation of oversize.
- Abbreviation 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
- (screenwriting) Abbreviation of offscreen; indicates a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen
Adverb
OS (not comparable)
- (Australia, informal) Abbreviation of overseas.
2015, Mick Houghton, I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny:You did the overseas trip. You went OS.
2022, The Betoota Advocate, The Australian Dream: Sell everything and move to Betoota, page 33:I kind of expanded my circle a bit more when I went OS [overseas].
Noun
OS (plural OSes or OSs)
- (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
Calton Hill in Edinburgh is located at OS grid ref NT262741.
- (software) Initialism of operating system.
I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
2008, Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems:Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before […]
2010, Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference:A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000 […]
2009, Emmett Dulaney, CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide:In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).
- Abbreviation of ordinary seaman.
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Chinese
Etymology
From initialism of English off-screen or English overlapping sound.
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Noun
OS
- (chiefly Taiwan, Internet slang) internal monologue
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Noun
OS (plural OS-ek)
- (computing) Abbreviation of operating system.
- Synonym: operációs rendszer
Declension
Japanese
Etymology
From English OS.
Pronunciation
Noun
OS • (ōesu)
- Abbreviation of オペレーティングシステム (operētingu shisutemu, “operating system”); an OS
2011 October 21, Hikaru Nakamura, “その45 八百万と九十九 [Chapter 45: Eight Million and Ninety-Nine]”, in 聖☆おにいさん [Saint☆Young Men], volume 7 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:98の次のOSは2000のはずなのに……このOS『99』だもん- Kyūjūhachi no tsugi no ōesu wa nisen no hazu na noni... Kono ōesu “kyūjūkyū” da mon
- The successor OS of 98 is supposed to be 2000... But this OS is ‘99’
Swedish
Noun
OS
- operating system; Initialism of operativsystem.
- the Olympic Games; Initialism of olympiska spelen.
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