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Definition: ANS |
ANSNoun1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ANS American National Standard. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ans is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. On January 1st, 2002 Ans had a total population of 27,587 (13,158 males and 14,429 females). The total area is 23.50 km² which gives a population density of 1,173.91 inhabitants per km².Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ANS."
| 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 |
ANS | English | Anglo-Norse Society | N/A |
ANS | French | Répondez | Transportation |
ANS | German | Antworten Sie | Transportation |
ANS | Greek | Αμερικανικό Εθνικό ρότυπο | N/A |
ANS | Italian | Rispondete | Transportation |
| ANS,ans | English | Autonomic Nervous System | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ANSSynonym: autonomic nervous system (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: ANS |
| English words defined with "ANS": asteroidal ♦ Cellular theory ♦ genus Phaius. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ANS": American National Standard, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ANSI Minimal BASIC ♦ Bannière ♦ COmmon Business Oriented Language ♦ low compact crouch ♦ Marriage Knot ♦ Narrowdale Noon, NSP ♦ PL/I Subset G, plasma incinerator, Pun and Pickpocket ♦ quarter century club. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ANS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Ann), French (years), Swedish (care, dressing, tending (the soil)). |
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Lyrics | Ans it’s half past four, and I’m shifting gear (Radar Love; performing artist: Golden Earring) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Après 5 ans (1974) Deux ans de vacances (1974) On n'est pas sérieux quand on a 17 ans (1974) Adieu mes quinze ans (1971) Dix films Cinéma de notre temps: François Truffaut: dix ans (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A Pasteur le Jour de Ses 70 Ans la Science et l'Humanite Reconnaissantes XXVII Decembre MDCCCXCII. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most physicians view dysautonomia in terms of failure of the sympathetic or parasympathetic components of the ANS, but dysautonomia involving excessive ANS activities also can occur. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Azerbaijan | In March police officers in northwest Azerbaijan who attacked a cameraman from independent ANS television received reprimands, but in most other cases, perpetrators of violence against journalists were not brought to justice. (references) |
Economic History | Cambodia | In April 1989, Hanoi and Phnom Penh announced that final withdrawal would take place by the end of September 1989. The military organizations of Prince Sihanouk (ANS) and of former Prime Minister Son Sann (KPNLAF) underwent significant military improvement during the 1988-89 period and both expanded their presence in Cambodia's interior. (references) |
Cambodia | Prince Sihanouk formed his own organization, FUNCINPEC, and its military arm, the Armee Nationale Sihanoukienne (ANS) in 1981. Warfare followed a wet season/dry season rhythm after 1980.The heavily-armed Vietnamese forces conducted offensive operations during the dry seasons, and the resistance forces held the initiative during the rainy seasons. (references) | |
Political Economy | Chad | Officers from President Deby's ethnic group dominate the Rapid Intervention Force (FIR) and the National Security Agency (ANS), a counterintelligence organization that has acted as an internal political police force. (references) |
Chad | The various military and security forces generally are responsive to the civilian control of the Ministry of Defense (ANS and FIR), Ministry of the Interior (Gendarmerie and NNG), and the Presidency (Republican Guard and the Presidential Security Force). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 42.42% of the time. "ANS" is used about 33 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 (plural) | 42.42% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Unclassified Items | 36.36% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.21% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ANS": americ-ans. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ANS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 美国国家 准. (various references) | |
German | anrührendes (touching ans to the). (various references) | |
Korean | 미국 표준 규격. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ansay.(various references) | |
Russian | ответ (ans answer, answer, answerback, rejoin, replay, reply, report, response). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ANS": ansa, ansae, ansate, ansated, anserine, anserines, anserous, answer, answerable, answered, answerer, answerers, answering, answers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ANS": abecedarians, academicians, acanthocephalans, acaridans, acousticians, actinians, aestheticians, afghans, agrarians, ajowans, alans, alcyonarians, alloxans, amphibians, annelidans, antediluvians, anthocyans, anthozoans, antihumanitarians, antilibertarians, antinomians, antipodeans, antiquarians, anurans, aphidians, apiarians, aquarians, arcadians, archaeans, arithmeticians, artisans, ascidians, ashcans, astrakhans, ataghans, atamans, atmans, authoritarians, avians, azans, bacchanalians, balbriggans, balmacaans, banians, bans, banyans, barbarians, barbicans, barchans, bartisans, bartizans. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ANS": airmanship, airmanships, aminotransferase, aminotransferases, artisanship, artisanships, autotransformer, autotransformers, autotransfusion, autotransfusions, banshee, banshees, banshie, banshies, beanstalk, beanstalks, biotransformation, biotransformations, bipartisanship, bipartisanships, brinkmanship, brinkmanships, brinksmanship, brinksmanships, cansful, canso, cansos, canst, caravansaries, caravansary, caravanserai, caravanserais, chairmanship, chairmanships, chanson, chansonnier, chansonniers, chansons, churchmanship, churchmanships, clansman, clansmen, cleanse, cleansed, cleanser, cleansers, cleanses, cleansing, contredanse, contredanses, cotransduce. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-s" | |
-1 letter: an, as, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ains, anas, ands, anes, anis, ansa, ants, anus, awns, bans, cans, fans, mans, nabs, nags, nans, naos, naps, nays, pans, sain, sand, sane, sang, sank, sans, sawn, scan, snag, snap, snaw, span, swan, tans, vans, wans. | |
+2 letters: acnes, aeons, agons, airns, alans, amens, amins, angas, angst, anils, anise, ankhs, ankus, anlas, annas, anoas, ansae, antas, antes, antis, antsy, arson, asana, ashen, aspen, aunts, avens, axons, ayins, azans, azons, bands, banes, bangs, banks, banns, barns, basin, beans, brans, cains, canes, canso, canst, cants, carns, clans, cyans, damns, dangs, darns, dawns, deans, donas, earns, elans, etnas, fanes, fangs, fanos, fauns, fawns, flans, gains, gangs, glans, gnars, gnash, gnats, gnaws, grans, guans, hands, hangs, hanks, hansa, hanse, hants, janes, jeans, kains, kanas, kanes, kaons, karns, khans, kinas, knaps, knars, koans, lands, lanes, lawns, leans, loans, lunas, mains, manas, manes, manos, manse, manus, mason, means, mensa, minas, moans, monas, mynas, naans, nabes, nabis, nadas, naifs, nails, names, nanas, napes, narcs, nards, nares, naris, narks, nasal, nasty, nates, naves, nazis, neaps, nears, neats, nemas, nipas, nomas, nonas, novas, pains, panes, pangs, pansy, pants, pawns, peans, pians, pinas, plans, punas, rains, rands, ranis, ranks, rants, roans, sabin, sains, saint, salon, sands, sandy, saned, saner, sanes, sanga, sangh, santo, saran, sarin, sasin, satin, sauna, savin, scans, scant, scena, sedan, senna, sensa, sewan, shank, sharn, shawn, skean, slain, slang, slank, slant, snack, snafu, snags, snail, snake, snaky, snaps, snare, snark, snarl, snash, snath, snaws, sneak, sneap, solan, sonar, spang, spank, spans, spawn, spean, stain, stand, stane, stang, stank, sunna, swain, swang, swank, swans, tains, tangs, tanks, tansy, tarns, trans, tunas, ulans, ulnas, unais, unaus, unsay, usnea, vanes, vangs, vinas, wains, wands, wanes, wants, warns, weans, yangs, yanks, yarns, yawns, yeans, yuans. | |
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