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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Foss (Corporal). An attendant on Lieutenant Worthington. A similar character to Trim in Sterne's Tristram Shandy. (G. Colman: The Poor Gentleman.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Foss, Oklahoma."
Date "FOSS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: FOSS |
| Specialty definitions using "FOSS": Foss-way. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FOSS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Icelandic (waterfall), Norwegian (falls, waterfall). |
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 |
FOSS | English | Fund of the seven seas | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Jasper Bilby at Station Foss 1904 Minnesota Wagon used by him to carry instruments and other light outfit. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Completed instrument tripod at Station Foss Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | First side of observer scaffolding being raised at Station Foss Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Both sides of observer scaffolding in place at Station Foss Photo #3 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Putting ties on scaffolding at Station Foss Photo #4 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ||
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| "FOSS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 47.62% of the time. "FOSS" 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 47.62% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "FOSS" 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 |
| Foss | Last name | 5,000 | 2,403 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Foss, OK (town, FIPS 27450) |
| 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 |
foss | 112 | foss state park | 7 |
foss science | 20 | foss sam walter | 6 |
foss lake | 19 | christopher foss | 6 |
foss motor | 19 | foss park | 6 |
joe foss | 19 | foss park golf course | 6 |
foss school swim | 18 | foss kit | 6 |
chris foss | 16 | sam foss | 6 |
foss maritime | 16 | foss manufacturing | 6 |
foss high school | 14 | foss motor roy | 6 |
foss roy | 14 | michael foss | 6 |
camp foss | 12 | david foss | 5 |
foss tate | 11 | foss lake oklahoma | 5 |
foss environmental | 11 | foss rayna rose | 5 |
field foss joe | 11 | foss swim | 5 |
foss science kit | 9 | lukas foss | 5 |
foss tecator | 8 | foss tug | 5 |
foss henry high school | 7 | dan foss | 4 |
foss oklahoma | 7 | foss training | 4 |
america foss north | 7 | bob foss | 4 |
foss rayna | 7 | foss karen | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "FOSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | sáncárok (bund ditch, fosse, moat), árok (chase, cut, delf, delft, dike, ditch, duct, dyke, escarp, fosse, furrow, groove, pit, trench). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ossfay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FOSS": fossa, fossae, fossas, fossate, fosse, fosses, fossette, fossettes, fossick, fossicked, fossicker, fossickers, fossicking, fossicks, fossil, fossiliferous, fossilise, fossilised, fossilises, fossilising, fossilization, fossilizations, fossilize, fossilized, fossilizes, fossilizing, fossils, fossorial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FOSS": macrofossil, macrofossils, microfossil, microfossils, nonfossil, subfossil, subfossils, unfossiliferous. (additional references) | |
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"FOSS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ffoss, Forss, Fosh, Fossi, Fpsas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FOSS" (pronounced fÄ"s) |
| 3 | f Ä" s | Fosse. |
| 2 | -Ä" s | Abbas, Bos, Crosse, floss, hahs, Kos, Las, Os, semigloss. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sos. | |
-2 letters: of, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: floss, fossa, fosse, sofas, softs. | |
+2 letters: fatsos, flossy, foists, fossae, fossas, fosses, fossil, frosts, ossify, scoffs, sofars, softas, spoofs. | |
+3 letters: aftosas, confess, fatsoes, fiascos, fission, flossed, flosses, flossie, focuses, fogless, foisons, forests, fossate, fossick, fossils, fosters, frescos, frisson, frowsts, fucoses, fuscous, fusions, fusspot, offsets, ossific, profess, safrols, setoffs, shofars, shroffs, soffits, softens, softest, softies, softish. | |
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