WS

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See also: ws, Ws, ws., ws-, .ws, w's, W's, and wš

Translingual

Symbol

WS

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Samoa.
    Synonym: WSM (alpha-3)

English

Noun

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

  1. Initialism of watersports (sexual practice)
    • 1977 December 3, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 14:
      GWM 25 would like to meet gay men bet 20-40 who are into W/S and light S&M.
  2. (Internet, Web) Initialism of Web service.
  3. (knitting) Initialism of wrong side.
    • 2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 41:
      with yarn in front, slip stitch purlwise on WS
  4. (law, Scotland) Initialism of writer to the signet.
  5. (music) Initialism of wavetable synthesis; a method used to generate sound by a digital music synthesizer.
  6. (baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.

Derived terms

Proper noun

WS

  1. Initialism of Western Samoa.
  2. (US) Initialism of Washington State (State of Washington)

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