Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Internet)A denial-of-service attack.

  2. A Director of Studies; someone who oversees the scholarly aspects of an institution, including faculty development and curriculum design.

More definitions
  • an operating system that is on a disk
  • the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Ela é a luz dos meus olhos.

  2. This program cannot be run in DOS mode.

    Ця програма не може бути запущена в режимі DOS. — rmdas

    ruЭта программа не может быть запущена в режиме DOS. — janTuki

    deDieses Programm kann nicht im DOS-Modus ausgeführt werden. — janTuki

  3. Here's the dos and don'ts of being a teacher.

  4. Pay attention to the dos and don’ts and you won’t get in trouble.

  5. Man, it's been a long time since I've seen "Exit to DOS". Good memories.

    deMann, ist das lange her, seit ich mal „Verlassen und zu DOS zurückkehren“ gesehen habe! Schöne Erinnerungen! — Waldelfe

Origin

From denial of service.

From denial of service.

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Forms

plural: DoSs / DoSes
SingularDoS
PluralDoSs / DoSes

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an operating system that is on a disk:disk operating system
  • the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies:Department of StateUnited States Department of StateState DepartmentState

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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