DS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ds"

English

Alternative forms

• D. S., D.S.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

DS (not comparable)

1. (pathology) Initialism of drug susceptible or drug sensitive.

   Antonym: DR

Noun

DS (countable and uncountable, plural DSs or DSes)

1. (medicine, usually used attributively) Initialism of double strength.
2. (medicine) Initialism of Down syndrome.
3. (Australia, New Zealand) Initialism of Douglas Score (point ranking for deer antlers).
4. (law enforcement) Initialism of detective sergeant; a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
5. (video games) Clipping of Nintendo DS.
   • 2007 December, “Big in Japan”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 16:

     It's been rumored for months, but Square Enix finally made it official: Kingdom Hearts is coming to DS.

   • 2025 December 24, Mamadou Ndiaye, “Why You Never Look This Shark in the Eyes”[1], Casual Geographic:

     If you make a shark that looks like a kid caught with a DS under the pillow at 2 AM choose violence, you asked for it in everything but writing.

6. (automotive) Clipping of DS Automobiles.
7. (slang, UK) Initialism of directing staff.
8. (logic) Initialism of disjunctive syllogism.
   • 2004 August, J. L. Schellenberg, “The Atheist’s Free Will Offence”, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, volume 56, № 1, pages 11-12:

     Let ‘F’ stand for the state of affairs that consists in finite persons possessing and exercising free will. Let ‘p’ stand for ‘God exists’; ‘q’ for ‘F obtains’; ‘r’ for ‘F poses a serious risk of evil’; and ‘s’ for ‘There is no option available to God that counters F.’ With this in place, the argument may be formalized as follows:
     (1) [(p & q) & r] → s Premiss
     (2) ~s        Premiss
     (3) ~[(p & q) & r]   1, 2 MT
     (4) ~(p & q) v ~r    3 DM
     (5) r         Premiss
     (6) ~(p & q)      4, 5 DS
     (7) ~p v ~q      6 DM
     (3) follows from the conjunction of (1) and (2) by modus tollens; De Morgan’s law applied to (3) yields (4); (4) and (5) together lead to (6) by disjunctive syllogism; and another application of De Morgan’s law takes us from (6) to the final conclusion, according to which either God exists or there is free will (but not both).

9. (music) Initialism of dal segno.
10. Initialism of dear/darling son.
    • 2011 March 17, Toby Young, “Mumsnet isn't representative of the 'squeezed middle'. It's just a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies”, in The Telegraph‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 March 2011:

      You can get the general idea from a recent comment in response to a request from a mother for advice on where to send her DS (Darling Son) to school.

11. (BDSM) Alternative form of D/s.
12. (sciences) Initialism of decision science.

Derived terms

• (pathology): DS-TB

Related terms

• (policing): DCI, DI, DC

See also

• (policing): supt., PC, WPC

Proper noun

DS

1. Abbreviation of Discord.

Anagrams

• S&D, S. D., S.D., SD, sd

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ɛs/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Homophone: déesse

Noun

DS

1. initialism of directeur sportif
2. initialism of devoir surveillé