Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mouth or an opening.
- noun A bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
os extrascapulare . - noun An abbreviation of the Latin Ordo Sancti Benedicti, Order of St. Benedict.
- noun In chem., the symbol for osmium.
- noun A mouth; a passage or entrance into any place: an anatomical term; specifically, the mouth of the womb.
- noun In geology, a Swedish term for certain elongated ridges of detrital material, generally considered to be of glacial origin, or in some not yet clearly explained way connected with the former presence of ice in the region where they occur.
- noun An abbreviation of the Latin Ordo Sancti Augustini, Order of St. Augustine.
- An abbreviation of the Latin Ordo Sancti Francisci, Order of St. Francis.
- noun Bone; a bone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mouth; an opening; an entrance.
- noun A bone.
- noun (Chem.) The chemical symbol for the element
osmium . - noun (Geol.) One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See
eschar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare, medicine
Bone . - noun An
osar oresker . - noun rare A
mouth ; anopening . - noun In particular, either end of the
cervix ,internal (to theuterus ) orexternal (to thevagina ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the left eye
- noun a mouth or mouthlike opening
- noun a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
- noun rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- noun (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The respectful salutation of carrying the hand to the mouth, ad os, is the root of the Latin word adoro, adorare.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
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But, it's true that Mole Negro, one of the most reknowned Moles Oaxaqueños is made with very dark toasted chiles plus a little chocolate.
oroboros commented on the word os
Os. Chemical element symbol for Osmium.
December 16, 2007
artoparts commented on the word os
See: od
February 18, 2009