Meaning

1 senses
  1. (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.

More definitions
  • a mouth or mouthlike opening
  • rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
  • the left eye
  • (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services

Examples

8 sentences
  1. What OS and browser do you use?

    ruКакой операционной системой - ОС - и каким браузером вы пользуетесь? — Khvalovsky

    deWelches Betriebssystem und welchen Netzgucker gebrauchen Sie? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Jalapeños are my favorite pepper.

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  3. I like spicy food and I really like jalapeños.

  4. Madrileños are crazy.

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  5. The chef prepared a spicy sauce for the tacos, adding jalapeños and cayenne pepper for a fiery kick.

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Forms

plural: OSes / OSs / OS's
SingularOS
PluralOSes / OSs / OS's

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates:bone
  • the left eye:oculus sinister
  • (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services:operating system
  • a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known:osmiumatomic number 76

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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