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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DNS 1. Domain Name System. 2. Distributed Name Service. See DECdns. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DNS |
| Specialty definitions using "DNS": Active Directory, address resolution ♦ Berkeley Internet Name Domain ♦ CNAME ♦ Domain Name System ♦ fat-finger ♦ Mail Exchange Record ♦ systems programmer ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DNS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (Domain Name Server, domain name system). |
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 |
DNS | English | Data network supervisor | N/A |
DNS | Finnish | Aluenimijärjestelmä | Post & Telecom |
DNS | German | Desoxyribonucleinsäure | Medicine |
DNS | Greek | σύστημα ονομάτων τομέων | Post & Telecom |
DNS | Portuguese | Servidor de nome de domínio | Computing |
DNS | Spanish | Sistema de Nombres de Dominio | Post & Telecom |
| DNS Acid | English | Dimethylamino Naphtalene Sulfonic Acid | Chemistry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The cost of service, suitable for small office, that contains connection of LAN through router, IP address, primary and secondary DNS, www disk of 2 MB, and unlimited access could reach 140 USD. Fixed line connection costs vary from 300 USD per month (28.8 kbps line) up to 1,800 USD per month (256 Kbps line). (references) | |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | Local ISPs provide the following range of services: dial-up, leased-line connections, e-mail, DNS service, and web-design. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DNS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DNS" is used about 30 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) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DNS": Merisel-dns. | |
| 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 |
dns | 1,481 | dns found host not | 36 |
dns server | 474 | ihostdns.com dns hosting stream hosting | 35 |
dns hosting | 434 | dns tool | 34 |
dns lookup | 402 | free secondary dns | 34 |
dynamic dns | 262 | dns setup | 33 |
ads.elong.com dns info.gif static | 193 | dns managed services | 32 |
dns error | 135 | free primary dns | 32 |
reverse dns lookup | 130 | dns forwarding | 31 |
reverse dns | 111 | dns search | 29 |
free dns | 104 | ad.xici.net dns info.gif static | 29 |
3.0 bar dns dnserror.htm hotbar hotbar.com ie | 99 | bind dns | 29 |
cannot find server or dns error | 62 | dns software | 28 |
dns service | 61 | dns top | 27 |
dns registration | 43 | ad4.sina.com.cn dns info.gif static | 27 |
free dns server | 43 | denial dns root service | 26 |
free dns service | 42 | check dns | 25 |
free dynamic dns | 42 | dns configuration | 24 |
dns info.gif netads.sohu.com static | 39 | dns ip locator | 24 |
public dns server | 39 | public dns | 24 |
cnsmin.3721.com dns info.gif static | 37 | dns port | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "DNS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 数据网业务. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | dnsay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ands, dens, dins, dons, duns, ends, nods, sand, send, sned. | |
+2 letters: bands, bends, binds, bonds, bunds, damns, dangs, darns, dawns, deans, denes, dense, dents, dines, dings, dinks, dints, djins, donas, dongs, donsy, downs, dunes, dungs, dunks, dunts, durns, dynes, fends, finds, fonds, funds, hands, hinds, kinds, lands, lends, mends, minds, nadas, nards, needs, nerds, nides, nidus, nodes, nodus, nosed, nudes, nurds, pends, ponds, rands, rends, rinds, rynds, sands, sandy, saned, scend, sedan, sends, shend, sneds, snide, snood, sonde, sound, spend, stand, synod, tends, vends, wands, wends, winds, wynds. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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