OS
See also: Appendix:Variations of "os"
English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
OS
- (sports) Abbreviation of Owen Sound.
Adjective
OS (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of outsize (clothes for large people)
- 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
Noun
- (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
- We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
- (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).
Derived terms
Terms derived from OS (“operating system”)
Translations
operating system
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Anagrams
Hungarian
Noun
OS (plural OS-ek)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | OS | OS-ek |
accusative | OS-t | OS-eket |
dative | OS-nek | OS-eknek |
instrumental | OS-sel | OS-ekkel |
causal-final | OS-ért | OS-ekért |
translative | OS-sé | OS-ekké |
terminative | OS-ig | OS-ekig |
essive-formal | OS-ként | OS-ekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | OS-ben | OS-ekben |
superessive | OS-en | OS-eken |
adessive | OS-nél | OS-eknél |
illative | OS-be | OS-ekbe |
sublative | OS-re | OS-ekre |
allative | OS-hez | OS-ekhez |
elative | OS-ből | OS-ekből |
delative | OS-ről | OS-ekről |
ablative | OS-től | OS-ektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
OS-é | OS-eké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
OS-éi | OS-ekéi |
Possessive forms of OS | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | OS-em | OS-eim |
2nd person sing. | OS-ed | OS-eid |
3rd person sing. | OS-e | OS-ei |
1st person plural | OS-ünk | OS-eink |
2nd person plural | OS-etek | OS-eitek |
3rd person plural | OS-ük | OS-eik |
Synonyms
Japanese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- 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: 8,000,000 and 99]”, 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’
Latin
Noun
OS m (indeclinable)
Related terms
- (left eye): OD (“oculus dexter”) (right eye)
Swedish
Noun
OS
- operating system; Initialism of operativsystem.
- the Olympic Games; Initialism of olympiska spelen.
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