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Definition: Joss |
JossNoun1. A Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "joss" was first used: 1711. (references) |
Etymology: Joss \Joss\, noun. [Chinese, corrupt. from Portuguese deos God, from Latin expression deus.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | JOSS-:STICKS:, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | JOSS JOHNNIAC Open Shop System. Charles L. Baker, RAND 1964. An early simple interactive calculator language. "JOSS Users' Reference Manual", R.L. Clark, Report F-1535/9, RAND Corp (Jan 1975) Sammet 1969, pp.217-226. Versions: JOSS I and JOSS II. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Joss The house-god of the Chinese; every family has its joss. A temple is called a joss-house. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
JOSS (acronym for JOHNNIAC Open Shop System), was an early simple interactive calculator language, developed by Charles L. Baker at RAND in 1964.See: "JOSS Users' Reference Manual", R.L. Clark, Report F-1535/9, RAND Corp (Jan 1975); Sammet 1969, pp.217-226. FOLDOC import.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "JOSS."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
JOSS (The JOHNNIAC Open Shop System) was developed by J.C. (Cliff) Shaw at RAND Corporation to allows users to use a computer interactively. JOSS enabled up to twelve people to share the computer simultaneously. This made it one of the first time-sharing systems to become available. JOSS was still available for use during the first half of the 1970s on IBM System/360 systems.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "JOSS programming language."
| 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 |
JOSS | English | Joint Object Services Submission | Computer - Computer - (OOP) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Temple | Synagogue; mosque; marabout; pantheon; pagoda; joss house; dogobah, tope; kiosk; kiack, masjid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Joss |
| English words defined with "joss": joss stick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "joss": Algebraic Interpretive Dialogue ♦ CITRAN, CONFUCIUS ♦ ESI ♦ IS-IS ♦ lcc ♦ PIL/I ♦ TELCOMP. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Serving as the flagship of the "Joss" (Licata) invasion force during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943 Photographed from USS Buck (DD-420). Credit: NAVY. |  | Addie Joss. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Joss stick urn" by Michelle Ho Commentary: "A joss stick urn with wish tree in the background." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Joss" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 68.00% of the time. "Joss" is used about 50 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) | 68% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "joss" 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 |
| Joss | Last name | 170 | 51,168 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Joss." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Jocelin | Female | English | Jocelyn |
| Joscelin | Female | English | Jocelyn |
| Josceline | Female | English | Jocelyn |
| Joselyn | Female | English | Jocelyn |
| Joss | Female | English | Jocelyn |
| Josslyn | Female | English | Jocelyn |
| Joceline | Female | French | Jocelyn |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "joss": joss house ♦ joss paper ♦ joss stick. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "joss": joss-stick, joss-sticks, joss-stick-scented, joss-sticky. | |
Ending with "joss": Unstead-joss. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
joss whedon | 116 | fray joss whedons | 4 |
joss cue | 52 | fray joss whedon | 4 |
joss | 36 | joss west cue | 4 |
joss pool cue | 23 | joss stakehouse | 4 |
joss paper | 16 | claude joss | 3 |
extra joss | 14 | jonathan joss | 3 |
joss ackland | 13 | joss wedon | 3 |
firefly joss whedon | 10 | joss tour | 3 |
joss stick | 9 | cue gun joss | 3 |
scott joss | 8 | biography joss whedon | 2 |
addie joss | 5 | joss official whedon | 2 |
interview joss whedon | 5 | joss cue stick | 2 |
angel joss whedon | 4 | contact joss whedon | 2 |
joss west | 4 | cue joss pool west | 2 |
joss pool stick | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "joss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Idhull Kinez. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Китайски Идол. (various references) | |
Czech | Èínský Bùh. (various references) | |
Farsi | سرکارگر, سرعمله , بت چینی . (various references) | |
German | Räucherstäbchen (joss stick). (various references) | |
Greek | Είδωλο Θεού, ίινέζικο Είδωλο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kínai bálvány. (various references) | |
Italian | Idolo Cinese. (various references) | |
Manx | jalloo (altarpiece, bust, carving, drawing, effigy, figure, guy, icon, idol, image, painting, picture, sculpture, statue). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ossjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ídolo chinês. (various references) | |
Romanian | Talisman (amulet, charm, mascot, periapt, talisman), Idol Chinezesc. (various references) | |
Russian | талисман (amulet, mascot, talisman), Китайский Идол, Амулет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kineski idol. (various references) | |
Swedish | kinesisk gudabild, Kinesisk Avgudabild. (various references) | |
Thai | รูปบูชาของชาวจีน. (various references) | |
Turkish | Çin Putu. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nén hương (joss-stick), đền (joss-house). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Portugese | 1100-Modern | deus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "joss": josses. (additional references) | |
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"Joss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aoss, jass, jessy, Jisc, jiss, joas, Joass, jods, johs, jois, joks, jons, joose, jops, jors, jos, josa, jose, joshs, josi, Josl, jost, josy, jous, jovs, jows, joz, joze, Jozsa, jozz, js, jusp, juss, koss, Ojocs, ojos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "joss" (pronounced jô"s) |
| 2 | -ô" s | across, boss, cos, Coss, cross, dos, doss, dross, emboss, gloss, Koss, lacrosse, loss, moss, Pross, recross, sauce, toss. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "j-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sos. | |
-2 letters: jo, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "j-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: sojas. | |
+2 letters: joists, joshes, josses, jousts, sajous, shojis, slojds. | |
+3 letters: jetsoms, jobless, joneses, josephs, joshers, jostles, joyless. | |
+4 letters: disjoins, gjetosts, jokiness, jostlers, jousters, judoists, misjoins, resojets, sapajous, sjamboks, sojourns, subjoins. | |
+5 letters: adjustors, banjoists, disjoints, jacobuses, jalousies, jarosites, jettisons, jingoisms, jingoists, jointress, jokesters, jolliness, joylessly, joysticks, pulsojets, skijorers. | |
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