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Definition: POSS |
POSSTransitive verb1. To push; to dash; to throw. |
Note: Poss \Poss\, transitive verb. [See Push.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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 |
POSS | English | Passive Optical Satellite Surveillance(System) | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: POSS |
| Specialty definitions using "POSS": Adger ♦ farkled ♦ gumby ♦ system mangler ♦ turist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "POSS": my. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "POSS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (bedpost). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "POSS" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "POSS" is used about 21 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 42.86% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 38.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "POSS" 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 |
| Poss | Last name | 1,000 | 9,406 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
poss | 31 |
michael poss | 12 |
poss test | 4 |
poss realty | 4 |
halfnight poss | 4 |
21 century poss realty | 3 |
eei poss test | 3 |
poss rick | 3 |
as as detail include much poss | 2 |
mass poss test | 2 |
eei mass poss test | 2 |
eei poss | 2 |
clown insane poss | 2 |
kim poss | 2 |
mass poss | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | возможный (affordable, conceivable, eventual, feasible, like, poss possible, possible, presumable, probable, thinkable), вероятный (believable, credible, interquartile, likely, poss possible, possible, presumable, probabilistic, probable, verisimilar). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POSS": posse, posses, possess, possessed, possessedly, possessedness, possessednesses, possesses, possessing, possession, possessional, possessionless, possessions, possessive, possessively, possessiveness, possessivenesses, possessives, possessor, possessors, possessory, posset, possets, possibilities, possibility, possible, possibler, possiblest, possibly, possum, possums. (additional references) | |
Words containing "POSS": dispossess, dispossessed, dispossesses, dispossessing, dispossession, dispossessions, dispossessor, dispossessors, impossibilities, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, impossiblenesses, impossibly, nonpossession, nonpossessions, opossum, opossums, prepossess, prepossessed, prepossesses, prepossessing, prepossession, prepossessions, repossess, repossessed, repossesses, repossessing, repossession, repossessions, repossessor, repossessors, unprepossessing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "oss": JOSS, loss, OSS. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sops. | |
| Words within the letters "o-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: ops, sop, sos. | |
-2 letters: op, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: pesos, pisos, poses, posse, posts, pross, psoas, scops, shops, slops, soaps, sophs, soups, spots, stops, swops, sysop. | |
+2 letters: copses, dipsos, eposes, estops, gossip, hyssop, knosps, opsins, opuses, paseos, pestos, piscos, poises, posers, posies, posits, posses, posset, possum, proses, prosos, ptoses, ptosis, pyoses, pyosis, sapors, scoops, scopes, sepoys, sloops, slopes, snoops, sopors, splosh, spodes, spoils, spokes, spoofs, spooks, spools, spoons, spoors, spores, sports, spouse, spouts, stomps, stoops, stopes, stoups, stowps, strops, swoops, sysops, tossup, uptoss. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 53 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0053 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50495353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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