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Date "COSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
"COSE" is a common misspelling or typo for: case, cause, chose, close, code, come, copse, cosset, cues. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | COSE Common Open Software Environment. An initiative by Hewlett-Packard, Sun, IBM, Novell, Univel and SCO to move towards consistency and interoperability between Unix suppliers. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
COSE | English | Common Open Software Environment | Computer - (HP, Sun, IBM, SCO, USL, Univel) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: COSE |
| Specialty definitions using "COSE": Common Desktop Environment ♦ HORSE COSER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "COSE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (things). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Cose di Cosa Nostra (1971) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cose up of cotton. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Lingonberry" by Per Hardestam Commentary: "A cose up of a couple of lingonberries. Red against green." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "COSE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.94% of the time. "COSE" is used about 340 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 72.94% | 248 | 18,908 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.06% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (common) | 7.35% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.76% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.88% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 340 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "COSE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cose | Last name | 130 | 57,872 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "COSE": cose-compliant, cose-like. | |
Ending with "COSE": Non-cose. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cose | 38 |
ellis cose | 7 |
cose della vita | 6 |
cose di montagna | 5 |
cose zip | 5 |
le cose che vivi | 4 |
area cose | 4 |
cose della lyrics vita | 4 |
cose strane | 3 |
casa cose di | 3 |
cleveland cose | 3 |
comuni cose velvet | 3 |
cose cosmetic | 2 |
cose insurance | 2 |
cose belle | 2 |
cose da difendere le nek | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Rri Me Rehat. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Lustálkodik (idle, laze, loll, to bum, to laze, to loll about, to take one's ease). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | osecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vagarosamente (gently, leisurely, slow), levemente (lightly, little, slightly), facilmente (easily, easy, lightly, readily, swimmingly, with ease). (various references) | |
Romanian | Sta La Taifas (confabulate, coze), Se Face Como. (various references) | |
Russian | уютно расположиться, устроиться (seat), удобно (accommodatingly, easy), Удобно Расположиться. (various references) | |
Spanish | Cómodamente (comfortably, cosily, snugly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Зручно Влаштуватися. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COSE": cosec, cosecant, cosecants, cosecs, coses, coset, cosets, cosey, coseys. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "COSE": bellicose, floccose, fruticose, fucose, glucose, jocose, mucose, narcose, talcose, varicose, ventricose, verrucose, viscose, vorticose. (additional references) | |
Words containing "COSE": actinomycoses, bellicosely, blastomycoses, catholicoses, coccidioidomycoses, cryptococcoses, cysticercoses, echinococcoses, fucoses, glucoses, jocosely, jocoseness, jocosenesses, mycoses, narcoses, picosecond, picoseconds, psittacoses, silicoses, sycoses, thyrotoxicoses, toxicoses, varicosed, viscoses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cos, oes, ose, sec. | |
-2 letters: es, oe, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-s" | |
+1 letter: ceros, chose, close, codes, coeds, cokes, coles, comes, cones, copes, copse, cores, corse, cosec, coses, coset, cosey, cosie, cotes, coves, coxes, cozes, decos, echos, escot, onces, scone, scope, score, secco, socle, voces. | |
+2 letters: bocces, boches, cameos, canoes, cellos, celoms, censor, centos, ceorls, cerous, cestoi, cestos, chemos, chokes, choose, chores, chosen, choses, chouse, chowse, clones, closed, closer, closes, closet, cloves, clozes, coarse, coaxes, cobles, codecs, codens, coders, coleus, colies, combes, comers, comets, comose, comtes, coneys, conges, conies, contes, cooees, cooers, cooeys, copens, copers, copies, copses, corers, corpse, corses, corset, corves, cosecs, cosets, coseys, coshed, cosher, coshes, cosied, cosier, cosies, cosine, cosset, costae, costed, coster, coupes, course, covens, covers, covets, coveys, cowers, coyest, cozens, cozeys, cozies, cozzes, credos, cresol, crones, crores, crosse, crouse, crozes, cymose, decors, decoys, echoes, epochs, escort, escots, escrow, escudo, ficoes, forces, fresco, fucose, geckos, icones, jocose, locoes, mucose, nonces, oceans, ochers, ochres, ockers, octets, oscine, oscule, ouches, ounces, ponces, recons, rectos, roscoe, schmoe, scolex, sconce, scones, scoped, scopes, scored, scorer, scores, scoter, scouse, scowed, seccos, second, sector, socage, soccer, socked, socket, socles, socmen, solace, source, voices. | |
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