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Definition: SS |
SSNoun1. Special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "SS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
"SS" is a common misspelling or typo for: as, is, sash, sass, sis, so, us. |
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Slang | Adjective. Source: SS really stands for Secret Shopper, a person from Starbuck's Corprate that pretends to be a customer to see how the employees are truly satisfying customer needs. Definition: Secret Shopper. Context: Used to express to the other employees that they are not working or the store is not operating to full potential. Social Source: Eugene Starbuck's Employees. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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List of AL Gold Glove Winners at ShortstopGold Glove
AL: P | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF
NL: P | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF
Year Player Team 1957 Roy McMillan Cincinnati Reds 1958 Luis Aparicio Chicago White Sox 1959 Luis Aparicio Chicago White Sox 1960 Luis Aparicio Chicago White Sox 1961 Luis Aparicio Chicago White Sox 1962 Luis Aparicio Chicago White Sox 1963 Zoilo Versalles Minnesota Twins 1964 Luis Aparicio Baltimore Orioles 1965 Zoilo Versalles Minnesota Twins 1966 Luis Aparicio Baltimore Orioles 1967 Jim Fregosi California Angels 1968 Luis Aparicio Chicago White Sox 1969 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1970 Luis Aparicio Chicago White Sox 1971 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1972 Ed Brinkman Detroit Tigers 1973 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1974 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1975 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1976 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1977 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1978 Mark Belanger Baltimore Orioles 1979 Rick Burleson Boston Red Sox 1980 Alan Trammell Detroit Tigers 1981 Alan Trammell Detroit Tigers 1982 Robin Yount Milwaukee Brewers 1983 Alan Trammell Detroit Tigers 1984 Alan Trammell Detroit Tigers 1985 Alfredo Griffin Oakland Athletics 1986 Tony Fernandez Toronto Blue Jays 1987 Tony Fernandez Toronto Blue Jays 1988 Tony Fernandez Toronto Blue Jays 1989 Tony Fernandez Toronto Blue Jays 1990 Ozzie Guillen Chicago White Sox 1991 Cal Ripken, Jr Baltimore Orioles 1992 Cal Ripken, Jr Baltimore Orioles 1993 Omar Vizquel Seattle Mariners 1994 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 1995 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 1996 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 1997 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 1998 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 1999 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 2000 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 2001 Omar Vizquel Cleveland Indians 2002 Alex Rodriguez Texas Rangers 2003 Alex Rodriguez Texas Rangers Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of AL Gold Glove Winners at Shortstop."
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List of NL Gold Glove Winners at ShortstopGold Glove
AL: P | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF
NL: P | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF
Year Player Team 1957 Roy McMillan Cincinnati Reds 1958 Roy McMillan Cincinnati Reds 1959 Roy McMillan Cincinnati Reds 1960 Ernie Banks Chicago Cubs 1961 Maury Wills Los Angeles Dodgers 1962 Maury Wills Los Angeles Dodgers 1963 Bobby Wine Philadelphia Phillies 1964 Ruben Amaro Philadelphia Phillies 1965 Leo Cardenas Cincinnati Reds 1966 Gene Alley Pittsburgh Pirates 1967 Gene Alley Pittsburgh Pirates 1968 Dal Maxvill St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Don Kessinger Chicago Cubs 1970 Don Kessinger Chicago Cubs 1971 Bud Harrelson New York Mets 1972 Larry Bowa Philadelphia Phillies 1973 Roger Metzger Houston Astros 1974 Dave Concepcion Cincinnati Reds 1975 Dave Concepcion Cincinnati Reds 1976 Dave Concepcion Cincinnati Reds 1977 Dave Concepcion Cincinnati Reds 1978 Larry Bowa Philadelphia Phillies 1979 Dave Concepcion Cincinnati Reds 1980 Ozzie Smith San Diego Padres 1981 Ozzie Smith San Diego Padres 1982 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1983 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1984 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1985 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1986 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1987 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1988 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1989 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1990 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1991 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1992 Ozzie Smith St. Louis Cardinals 1993 Jay Bell Pittsburgh Pirates 1994 Barry Larkin Cincinnati Reds 1995 Barry Larkin Cincinnati Reds 1996 Barry Larkin Cincinnati Reds 1997 Rey Ordonez New York Mets 1998 Rey Ordonez New York Mets 1999 Rey Ordonez New York Mets 2000 Neifi Perez Colorado Rockies 2001 Orlando Cabrera Montreal Expos 2002 Edgar Renteria St. Louis Cardinals 2003 Edgar Renteria St. Louis Cardinals Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of NL Gold Glove Winners at Shortstop."
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The Schutzstaffel (German for "Protective Corps," often abbreviated SS) was an elite paramilitary unit of the German Nazi party. It was formed from the ranks of the SA in 1925 to be Adolf Hitler's personal guard and to guard NSDAP meetings. On January 6 1929 Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler as the leader of the SS, which then had only 280 people among its ranks. With Hitler's approval Himmler built up the SS and by the end of 1932 the SS already had 52,000 members. After only a year the SS had over 209,000 members.
- Alternate uses: see SS (disambiguation)
Before 1932 the SS wore the same uniform as the Sturmabteilung except for a black tie and a black cap with a death's head on it. Later they adopted a black uniform and then, just before the war, a fieldgrey uniform.
Heinrich Himmler, together with his right-hand man Reinhard Heydrich, consolidated the power of the organisation. In 1931 Himmler gave Heydrich the assignment to build an intelligence service inside the SS, the Sicherheitsdienst.
By the time World War II began the number of members rose to 250,000 and the Waffen-SS was formed in December 1940 to fight alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular military. The SS also received control of the Gestapo in 1936.
The SS evolved into a highly effective and deadly force during World War II. At its peak, its name and reputation for efficient and terrifying violence was enough to strike fear into the heart of anyone. Hitler gave the SS jurisdiction over all concentration camps and allowed them to oversee the day-to-day control of all countries conquered by Germany during the war.
See also: Praetorian Guard, Secret Service
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SS or ss may be:
- Schutzstaffel, see SS
- Sassari province of Italy
- steamship (SS) (ship prefix)
- Stockholm Skins, a neo-nazi organization in Stockholm, Sweden.
- a submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN
- Super Sport (SS) is the abbreviation for the performance package that the Chevrolet automobile division of General Motors uses on certain models. It can include high-perfomance engine, suspension, tire and alternate body styling options. It was first used on the Impala model in 1961
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The ess-tsett ("ß") is a letter used only in the German alphabet. It represents the ligature "ss" under certain conditions (cf. the letter W, which represents a ligature, too: "double u"). "ß" is unique among the letters of western alphabets in that it has no majuscule; "SS" must be used in an all-caps environment. "ß" should not be confused with the lowercase Greek letter beta ("β"), which it resembles but to which it is unrelated.
The name ess-tsett is a phonetic circumscription of how the two letters "s" and "z" are pronounced in German. Although the letter is universally called "sz", this is historically imprecise, since it originally derived from a Fraktur character representing the ligature of the long or medial "s ("ſ") with the short or terminal "s" (now the conventional minuscule letterform) -- that is, "sz" is really "ſs".
In today's German orthography, "ß" (like other "simple" consonants) is used after a long vowel, while "ss" (like other "doubled" consonants) is used after a short one. Both represent the sound /s/; a solitary "s" has the value /z/ (although this is devoiced at the end of a word). For example, Fuß (/fu:s/, German for "foot") has a long vowel, while Fluss (/flUs/, meaning "river") has a short vowel (cf. the difference of engl. "c(e)" and "ss" in "mice" and "miss").
Until the reform of German orthography (Neue Rechtschreibung) in 1998, an additional rule prescribed that "ss" would never be used at the end of a word and be replaced by "ß", even if it followed a short vowel. As a result, Fluss was formerly spelled Fluß; the new rule gets rid of the irregularity that even under the old orthography, the plural Flüsse was spelled with "ss" because in the plural, the "ss" was not at the end of the word. This is to accord with the orthography of other consonants, which are single after a long vowel and double after a short one; for example, egal /ega:l/ with a long "a" and Ball /bal/ with a short one.
This new usage of "ß" is now standard in Germany and Austria. But Switzerland has abolished the use of "ß" completely and uses "ss" in all cases.
The ß is also used by some in transcribing Sumerian.
The HTML entity for "ß" is
ß. Its codepoint in ISO 8859-1 and identically in Unicode is 223, or DF in hexadecimal.
Related articles
- Umlaut
- Letter Ä, Letter Ö, Letter Ü
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The SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner sailing from Genoa for the Italian Line, named after a Genoese admiral named Andrea Doria.The ship slid into the water on June 16, 1951. The ship was considered to be one of the most beautiful ocean liners made after World War II. Her maiden voyage came on January 14, 1953.
On July 25, 1956, the bow of the SS Stockholm of the Swedish-American Line collided into the Andrea Doria's starboard side. Around 50 passengers were killed in the collision. The rest of the passengers were rescued from the ship, which took 14 hours to sink. The SS Stockholm did not sink and operated afterwards.
External links
- http://www.andreadoria.org
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SS Central America was a 280-foot sidewheel steamer that steamed between Central America and the Eastern US Coast in the 1850s. On September 3, 1857, 477 passengers and 101 crew left port from Panama sailing for New York City. The ship was heavily laden with gold recovered in the California gold rush. After a stop in Havana, the ship continued North.A gale started blowing on September 9th and kept increasing in strength. By September 11th, her sails were shredded, she was taking on water, and her boiler was threatening to go out. A leak in one of the seals to the paddle wheels sealed her fate, and at noon that day her boiler could no longer maintain fire and steam pressure dropped, shutting down both the pumps keeping the water at bay and the paddle wheels that kept her pointed into the wind.
A bucket brigade was formed and her passengers and crew spent the night fighting a losing battle against the rising water. The next morning, two ships were spotted and some people managed to make their way over. But the winds pulled the ship away and roughly 425 people died when the ship sank around 8PM that night.
The ship was located by a ROV operated by the Columbus-America Discovery Group on September 11, 1987. Significant amounts of the gold were recovered and brought to the surface by another ROV built specifically for the recovery.
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The SS Columbia Eagle incident occurred during the Vietnam War when sailors aboard an American merchant ship mutinied and hijacked the ship to Cambodia.On 14 March 1970 two American merchant marine sailors, Clyde McKay and Alvin Glatkowski, using guns they had smuggled aboard, seized control of their ship, SS Columbia Eagle, in the first armed mutiny aboard an American ship in 150 years. The ship was carrying napalm to the US Air Force bases in Thailand for use in the Vietnam War.
The mutineers claimed that there was a live bomb on board the ship, and forced the captain to order 24 of the crewmen to abandon ship in the lifeboats. The ship's cargo, 3500 500-pound bombs and 1225 750-pound bombs, gave this threat credibility.
The merchant ship Rappahanock picked up the lifeboats and crew members and broadcast the news of the mutiny. The amphibious transport dock USS Denver was diverted to intercept Columbia Eagle.
With only 13 crewmen remaining onboard besides themselves, the mutineers sailed into Cambodian waters, where they assumed they would be welcomed as heroes. They anchored within the 12-mile territorial limit claimed by Cambodia on the afternoon of 15 March.
At 0951 on 16 March, Denver anchored 15.6 miles from the coast in the Gulf of Siam, remaining outside Cambodian waters. The US Coast Guard cutter Mellon joined shortly thereafter with Commander, Amphibious Squadron Seven, as senior officer present. Two CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters landed on Denver from bases in Vietnam to assist in visual surveillance. Meanwhile, the mutineers had turned the ship over to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government, declared themselves anti-war revolutionaries, and were granted asylum.
On 17 March, the helicopters were detached and Denver, with Commander, Amphibious Squadron Seven, departed for Singapore, passing on-scene command to Mellon.
On 18 March at 0636 Denver reversed her course; Prince Sihanouk had been deposed by a coup led by the pro-Western Sirik Matak and Lon Nol. If the Cambodians could be persuaded to release Columbia Eagle, Denver's flight deck could help the rescued crew members rejoin their ship. The coup was unfortunate for McKay and Glatkowski; they had hoped to find asylum in a Communist country; instead, they became prisoners of the Phnom Penh regime. At 2359 on 18 March, Denver anchored in the Gulf of Siam 17.0 miles from the coast of Cambodia.
Sihanouk, now in exile, charged that the CIA had masterminded the mutiny to deliver weapons to Lon Nol. Both the mutineers and U.S. officials denied his charges, but the damage was done; no Communist forces would shelter them now that the suspicion that they were CIA stooges had been created.
When it became clear that Columbia Eagle's release was not imminent, Denver was detached to proceed to Da Nang.
Almost three weeks elapsed before Columbia Eagle was allowed to leave. She was taken to Subic Bay where her crew was reunited and her cargo was delivered to Thailand by another vessel.
After months of imprisonment, Glatkowski was extradited to the United States to face trial. He was charged with mutiny, kidnapping, assault and neglect of duty, convicted, and served his sentence.
McKay escaped from his captors along with a U.S. Army deserter, Larry Humphrey, and sought out the Khmer Rouge. He was officially declared missing on 4 November 1970 and has never been located.
References
The article contains information from the book The Eagle Mutiny and from USS Denver's Web site, http://www.denver.navy.mil/, as well as numerous minor sources.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "SS Columbia Eagle incident."
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The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a ship that sank in a storm on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay. All 29 crew on board were killed and this was the last major ship lost on the Great Lakes.The Fitz was a 729-foot long ore freighter with a capacity of over 25,000 tons of ore (then, the largest ship on the Great Lakes). It was used to carry taconite to iron works in Detroit, Toledo and other ports. The ship went down with all 29 hands on the last trip before winter layup. The Fitzgerald had been traveling to the shelter of Whitefish Bay during an unusually strong storm. The next year a Navy submersible found the ship lying in two large pieces. An inquiry determined that the storm damaged hatches on the deck and flooded the ship.
The ship's bell was recovered from the wreck and is now in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point near Paradise, Michigan. An anchor from the ship lost on an earlier trip was recovered from the Detroit River and is on display at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit.
Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy.
Statistics
- Length: 729 feet
- Width: 75 feet
- Draft: 39 feet
- Displacement: 8686 tons
- Rated speed: 14 knots
- Fuel: 72,000 gallons fuel oil
- Capacity: 26,600 tons
- Built: River Rouge, Michigan, 1958
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The SS Great Britain in dry dock in Bristol, 2003.
Larger versionThe SS Great Britain was the first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull, the first ocean-going ship to have a screw propeller, and when launched in 1843 was the largest vessel afloat.
She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thomas Guppy, Christopher Claxton and William Patterson for the Great Western Steamship Company and built in a specially adapted dry dock at Bristol. Originally intended as an Atlantic steamer, she made most of her working voyages from Britain to Australia. She was also used as a troop ship during the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. In 1882 she was turned into a sailing ship to transport bulk coal, but after a fire on board in 1886 she was found to be damaged beyond repair. She was sold to the Falkland Islands Company and used as a storage hulk until the 1930s, when she was scuttled and abandoned. In 1970 she was refloated on a pontoon and towed back to Bristol, where she was returned to the (then-disused) dry dock in which she was built, for conservation as a museum ship.
As of 2003, reconstruction is underway and there are guided tours for visitors wearing hard hats.
Dimensions
- Length: 322ft (98.15m)
- Beam (width): 50ft 6in (15.39m)
- Height (main deck to keel): 32ft 6in (9.91m)
- Weight unladen: 1930 long tons (2161 short tons, 1961 tonnes)
- Displacement: 3018 long tons (3380 short tons, 3066 tonnes)
Links
- Official website: http://www.ss-great-britain.com/
- Unofficial site: http://www.radisol.com/ssgb/
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SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was an ocean liner of Norddeutscher Lloyd, notable as the first passenger ship sunk in World War I.She was built by Vulkan of Stettin. Launched on May 4 1897, she made her maiden voyage on September 19 of that year, from Bremerhaven to New York. In November 1897, she set an eastbound crossing record from Sandy Hook to the Needles and four months later she captured the westbound Blue Riband. She held these records until Hapag's Deutschland took the eastbound record in July 1900 and the westbound one in September 1903.
She became the first liner to have a commercial wireless telegraphy system when in February 1900 the Marconi Company installed one. Communications were demonstrated with systems installed at the Borkum Island lighthouse and Borkum Riff lightship, as well as with British stations.
The ship escaped a massive fire at NDL's Hoboken, New Jersey, piers in June 1900, which badly damaged her running mates, Main, Bremen and Saale and killed 161 crewmen on those ships. Six years later, in November 1906, she was struck broadside while trying to cross in front of Royal Mail's Orinoco; five passengers on Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse were killed by the impact and a hole 21 meters (70 feet) wide by 8 meters (26 feet) high was made in her hull. An Admiralty Court found the accident to be entirely attributable to Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
In August 1914 the ship was commandeered by the Kaiserliche Marine and made an auxiliary cruiser, assigned to commerce raiding off the Canary Islands. After sparing two passenger ships because they were carrying women passengers, she sank two freighters before she herself sank on August 26 after being attacked by HMS Highflyer. British sources insisted that Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sank because of the damage inflicted by Highflyer. German authorities claimed her crew had scuttled her after she exhausted her munitions, to avoid capture. Whatever the cause, she was the first passenger ship sunk during World War I.
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The SS Savannah was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.The Savannah left the port of Savannah, Georgia on May 22, 1819 on its famous voyage and arrived in Liverpool, England on June 20.
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SS Yongala was a steel passenger and freight steamer, owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company. SS Yongala and its sitsership, SS Cooma, was built in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1903. They were named after the two townships Yongala and Cooma in New South Wales, Australia.
En route from Melbourne to Cairns on the night of 23 March 1911, it steamed into a cyclone and sank without a trace outside Townsville, Australia. The cause of the wrecking remains a mystery.
Cooma avoided the force of the cyclone in shelter of the nearby Cape Bowling Green. Yongala would probably not have suffered this tradegy had it had installed a wireless radio that could have warned them about the imminent danger. Ironically Yongala was due for a refit in Cairns, including installing a radio, at the end of its last journey.
124 passengers and crew were on the manifest. Children were usually not included, so the actual numbers was most likely higher. All passengers and crew perished along with a prize bull and a racehorce named 'Moonshine'.
Located as an 'unidentified wreck' during WWII, Rediscovered in 1958 and positivly identified by a serial number on a Chubb strongbox in 1961.
The wreck of Yongala is 109 meters in length. The bow points in a northerly direction (347º), and although it lies listing to starboard at an angle of between 60º - 70º, the vessel's structural integrity has been retained. The depth of water to the sea floor is approximately 30 meters, with the upper sections of the wreck 16 meters below the surface.
The wreck has become an established artificial reef, providing a structurally complex habitat for a diverse range of marine life. The seafloor surrounding the wreck is open and sandy.
In 1981 the wreck was sketched by marine biologist Leon Zann. Although the superstructure of the wreck remains intact and very much like this sketch, the significant build up of sand around the starboard side of the vessel has been scoured away, and the ventilators and railings have collapsed.
The wreck of Yongala lies within the central section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is approximately 48 nautical miles south east of Townsville and 12 nautical miles east of Cape Bowling Green.
SS Yongala is today a major tourist attraction for the dive industry in Townsville.
Currently, only a few boats (2 day trip, and some live aboard) is allowed into the area.
Late 2002, the site had several moorings installed to ensure that no more impact damage occurs by careless anchoring practices. A policy of 'No Anchoring' was also introduced within the protected zone following the installation of the moorings.
The wreck is protected under the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 and is managed through the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville. Penetration diving and interference with artefacts is prohibited under the terms of the Act. Access to the site is through permit only, obtainable from the Maritime Archaeology Section of the Museum of Tropical Queensland
The ship's bell One of the deck lights recovered from the Yongala. Note the delamination and opaque appearance of the glass panes caused through the uncontrolled and rapid drying of sodium chloride (salt). It was donated to the museum [1] in 1990.
External links
- http://www.townsvillemaritimemuseum.com.au
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The Waffen-SS was formed as a subdivision of the regular Schutzstaffel (SS) corps in Nazi Germany in order to perform a wide variety of functions:Later there were SS-Freiwilligenverbände (volunteers) from countries and regions such as Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Belorussia, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Finland, Georgia, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, North Caucasus, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sudetenland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Ukraine (e.g. SS Division Nordland, formed from Norwegian, Danish and Baltic volunteers), a SS-Hitlerjugend division (enlisted ranks were volunteers from the Hitlerjugend - Hitler Youth), an SS-Totenkopf Division was formed from excess guard detachments though all had died out by 1942 in the Valdai Hills of Russia. They were replaced by volunteers not affiliated with the despicable camps.
- Regular Troops (Verfügungstruppen) served as elite troops and fought alongside with the Wehrmacht - the regular army
- Hitler's personal guard -- Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.
Until 1944, service in the Waffen-SS was voluntary. Beginning then, whole units were assigned to the Waffen-SS.
Author 2: The SS also included the SD (security detachment, a counter-intelligence unit).
The SS Order of Battle included numerous units from small detachments to entire corps.
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| 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 |
SS | English | System simulator | N/A |
SS | Italian | Sante | Language, Religion & Philosophy |
ss | Spanish | Siguiente | Language |
| 3D SS | English | 3-D Spatial Sound | N/A |
| Ss. | French | Suivante | Language |
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Synonym: SSSynonym: Schutzstaffel (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: SS |
| English words defined with "SS": Heinrich Himmler, Himmler ♦ S.O.P., S/N, SA, Schutzstaffel, Scilicet, Storm Troops, Sturmarbeiteilung. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SS": Collar of SS ♦ SIMULA 67, SS loran. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | She Wolf of the SS Ilsa (1974) Pérák a SS (1946) Bordell SS (1978) Train spécial pour SS (1977) Casa privata per le SS (1977) | |
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 | Plate XXVII. 101. AEthopora metopoclampa, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From ALBATRO SS at N. Lat. 19.7, W. Lon. 75. 1, in 1639 fathoms. Second specimen from Messin a, Italy. 102. AEthoprora lucida, Goode and Brown. From ALBATROSS at N. Lat. 19 .7, W. Lon. 75.1, in 1639 fathoms. 103. AEthoprora effulgens, Goode and Bean. At Brown's Bank. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Fumigators [carrying] gas masks on board the American SS Ventura. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | At Darwin, Australia, probably on 15 or 18 February 1942. The destroyer astern of Houston may be USS Peary (DD-226). Among the ships in the background, to the left, are HMAS Terka and the SS Zealandia. The donor was on board HMAS Tolga, then used as a water carrier for ships in Darwin harbor. Credit: NAVY. |  | Probably photographed soon after she was taken over by the U.S. Shipping Board in 1917. Formerly the German merchant ship Prinz Joachim, she still wears that name on her bow. This ship was chartered by the U.S. Army in late 1917, acquired by the Navy on 19 February 1918 and placed in commission on 26 February 1918 as USS Moccasin (ID # 1322). She was returned to the Shipping Board on 2 June 1919 and later became the SS Porto Rico. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1947, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I. Built at New York City in 1861, this steamer was commercially employed as SS Santiago de Cuba in 1861 and in 1865-1886. Between 1861 and 1865, she served as USS Santiago de Cuba. She was converted to a barge in 1886 and renamed Marion. Credit: NAVY. |  | Artwork by Erik Heyl, 1957, for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume III. Built in Scotland in 1863, Thistle was a blockade runner until captured on 4 June 1864. She served as USS Dumbarton in 1864-1867 and was the merchantman Dumbarton in 1867-1868. Rerigged and reengined in 1868, she operated under the British flag as the SS City of Quebec until sunk in a collision on 1 May 1870. Credit: NAVY. |
 | U.S. Marshall branding hand of Jonathan Walker with the initials SS for slave stealer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Felipe D'Aquino, half-length portrait, facing left, aboard the SS Trade Winds, leaving San Francisco for Japan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Mack. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, California. Miss Eastine Cowner, a former waitress, is helping in her job as a scaler to construct the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Powerful car" by Jean-philippe Dufour Commentary: "One of my friend's car...a wonderful Nova SS, 454 horsepower." | "68 impala" by Scotty Mal Commentary: "A 1968 SS chevy impala." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | SS 2. THE LODGINGS |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Dikmen SS, Temkin NR, Machamer JE, Holubkov AL, Fraser RT, Winn HR. Employment following traumatic head injuries. (references) | |
Economic History | Latvia | The subsequent German occupation witnessed the mobilization of many Latvians into Waffen SS legions, while some Latvians joined the Red Army and formed resistance groups; others fled to the West and East. (references) |
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| "SS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.26% of the time. "SS" is used about 390 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) | 80.26% | 313 | 16,314 |
| Alphabetical Symbol | 17.18% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.56% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 390 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | SS & C Technologies Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "SS": called SS user ♦ SS modulation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SS": ss-a, Ss-ruc, Ss-sd-gestapo, ss-type, SS-user, ss-ux. | |
Ending with "SS": Waffen-ss. | |
| 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 |
club.js cssmodule js ss | 57,349 | chevy impala ss | 96 |
ss | 1,143 | 1969 camaro ss | 95 |
impala ss | 830 | ss death index | 89 |
monte carlo ss | 760 | 2002 camaro ss | 81 |
ss camaro | 758 | chevrolet ss | 77 |
waffen ss | 356 | nazi ss | 73 |
silverado ss | 266 | 69 camaro ss | 73 |
2004 impala ss | 220 | 96 impala ss | 69 |
ss norway | 216 | ss tahoe | 66 |
nova ss | 212 | 2003 impala ss | 63 |
chevelle ss | 175 | chevy silverado ss | 61 |
ss 4 | 157 | crager ss | 55 |
ss united state | 146 | chevrolet silverado ss | 53 |
1996 impala ss | 142 | 2000 camaro ss | 50 |
chevrolet impala ss | 123 | 2004 chevrolet impala ss | 49 |
form ss 4 | 118 | 2004 chevy impala ss | 49 |
chevy ss | 118 | ast ss | 48 |
1970 chevelle ss | 108 | 1968 camaro ss | 46 |
cab cisco ss v.35 v35mt | 100 | 1966 chevelle ss | 46 |
badger ss | 96 | ss lazio | 45 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 信号系统. (various references) | |
Danish | SS-modulation (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), spredtspektrum-modulation (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), spread-spectrum technique (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), opkaldt SS-bruger (called SS user), kaldte sessionstjenestebruger (called SS user), kaldt SS-bruger (called SS user), enkeltstrenget DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA). (various references) | |
Dutch | spreadspectrumtechniek (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), spreadspectrummodulatie (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), spreadspectrum techniek (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), spreadspectrum modulatie (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), geroepen sessieservice-gebruiker (called SS user), enkelstrengs-DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), enkelstrengig DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksisäikeinen DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), hajaspektritekniikka (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), hajaspektrimodulaatio (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation). (various references) | |
French | utilisateur du service de session appelé (called SS user), technique d'étalement du spectre (SS technique), modulation par étalement du spectre (SS modulation), modulation à étalement du spectre (SS modulation), ADN simple brin (ss-DNA), ADN monofilaire (ss-DNA), ADN monocaténaire (ss-DNA), ADN monobrin (ss-DNA). (various references) | |
German | Spreizspektrum-Modulation (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), gerufener SS-Benutzer (called SS user), Einstrang-DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), einsträngige DNS (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), einsträngige DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), DNS-Moleküle (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA). (various references) | |
Greek | καλούμενος χρήστης υπηρεσίας συνόδου (called SS user), μονόκλωνο DΝΑ (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), Σύστημα Σηματοδοσίας Νο 7 (SS No 7), τεχνική διεσπαρμένου φάσματος (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), διαμόρφωση διεσπαρμένου φάσματος (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation). (various references) | |
Italian | SS-utente chiamato (called SS user), utente del servizio di sessione chiamato (called SS user), tecnica di allargamento dello spettro (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), modulazione ad espansione di spettro (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), modulazione ad allargamento dello spettro (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), DNA a filamento singolo (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA). (various references) | |
Korean | 잠수함 (sub, Sub-, submarine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | utilizador de serviço de sessão chamado (called SS user), técnica de alargamento do espectro (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), modulação por alargamento do espectro (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), ADN simplex (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), ADN monofilamentar (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), ADN monocatenário (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA). (various references) | |
Spanish | usuario SS llamado (called SS user), técnica de ensanchamiento del espectro (spread spectrum technique, SS technique), modulación SS (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), modulación de espectro ensanchado (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), modulación con ensanchamiento del espectro (spread spectrum modulation, SS modulation), ADN monocatenario (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA). (various references) | |
Swedish | enkelsträngat DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), enkelkedjigt DNA (single-strand DNA, ss-DNA), anropad SS-användare (called SS user), anropad sessionstjänstanvändare (called SS user). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SS": abbess, abjectness, abortiveness, abrasiveness, abruptness, abscess, absentmindedness, absoluteness, abstemiousness, abstractedness, abstractness, abstruseness, absurdness, abusiveness, abyss, accentless, acceptableness, acceptingness, access, accessibleness, accidentalness, accommodativeness, accountableness, accumulativeness, accurateness, accursedness, accustomedness, achiness, acidness, acquisitiveness, acridness, acrimoniousness, across, actionless, activeness, actress, acuteness, adaptedness, adaptiveness, address, adeptness, adequateness, adhesiveness, admass, admirableness, adorableness, adroitness, adulteress, adultness, advantageousness, adventuresomeness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SS": abbesses, abjectnesses, abortivenesses, abrasivenesses, abruptnesses, abscessed, abscesses, abscessing, abscissa, abscissae, abscissas, abscission, abscissions, absentmindednesses, absolutenesses, abstemiousnesses, abstractednesses, abstractnesses, abstrusenesses, absurdnesses, abusivenesses, abyssal, abysses, acceptablenesses, acceptingnesses, accessaries, accessary, accessed, accesses, accessibilities, accessibility, accessible, accessiblenesses, accessibly, accessing, accession, accessional, accessioned, accessioning, accessions, accessorial, accessories, accessorise, accessorised, accessorises, accessorising, accessorize, accessorized, accessorizes, accessorizing, accessory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "s-s" | |
+1 letter: ass, ess, sis, sos. | |
+2 letters: asks, asps, bass, boss, buss, cess, coss, cuss, diss, doss, eses, fess, foss, fuss, hiss, isms, jess, joss, kiss, koss, lass, less, loss, mass, mess, miss, moss, muss, ness, oses, ossa, pass, piss, psis, psst, puss, sabs, sacs, sags, sals, sans, saps, sash, sass, saws, says, seas, secs, sees, segs, seis, sels, sers, sets, sews, shes, sibs, sics, sims, sins, sips, sirs, sits, skas, skis, sobs, sods, sols, sons, sops, sots, sous, sows, soys, spas, sris, subs, suds, sues, sums, suns, sups, suqs, suss, tass, toss, tsks, uses, wiss, wuss. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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