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Definition: ODS |
ODSInterjection1. A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases. |
Date "ODS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Shipping | Abbreviation for "Operating Differential Subsidy." An amount of money the U.S. government paid U.S. shipping companies that qualify for this subsidy. The intent was to help offset the higher subsidy. The intent was to help ofset the higher cost of operating a U.S.-flag vessel. The ODS program is administered by the U.S. Maritime Administration and is being phased out. (references) |
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 |
ODS | English | Odessa | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ODS |
| Specialty definitions using "ODS": Ozone depleting substance. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | According to the ODS, dietary supplements can have an important impact on the prevention and management of disease and on the maintenance of health. (references) | |
Political Economy | Czech Rep | Other opposition parties are the right-of-center Freedom Union (US) (which split from ODS in 1998), the centrist Christian Democratic Union (KDU-CSL) and the leftist Communist Party. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | It also provides modest technical assistance at both the institutional and enterprise levels to facilitate implementation of the ODS Phaseout Country Program, and technology framework project. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ODS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.18% of the time. "ODS" is used about 34 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) | 91.18% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (plural) | 5.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ods | 123 | ods oregon | 3 |
ods health plan | 26 | llbean.com ods | 3 |
crossing ods sports | 7 | dental ods | 3 |
ods petrodata | 6 | nation ods united | 3 |
ods sports | 5 | connector ods | 2 |
ods health insurance | 5 | ods network | 2 |
ods insurance | 5 | ods talk track | 2 |
ods sports.com | 4 | basic extended ods procedure sql stored visual | 2 |
ods sas | 4 | ods sas sugi | 2 |
health ods | 4 | basic ods sql visual | 2 |
akron group management ny ods | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ODS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | alliage renforcé par dispersion d'oxydes (ODS alloy), alliage durci par dispersion d'oxydes (ODS alloy). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Oxid-dispersionsgehärtete Legierung (ODS alloy, oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | lega rinforzata mediante dispersione di ossidi (ODS alloy, oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | odsay aleación endurecida por dispersión de oxidos (ODS alloy, oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ODS": adulthoods, agalwoods, allods, amphipods, anglepods, apods, arrowwoods, arthropods, aunthoods, babyhoods, bachelorhoods, backwoods, basswoods, baywoods, bearwoods, bebloods, beefwoods, bentwoods, bipods, blackwoods, bloods, bluebloods, bluewoods, bods, bogwoods, boxwoods, boyhoods, brachiopods, branchiopods, brazilwoods, broods, brotherhoods, brushwoods, buttonwoods, candlewoods, cedarwoods, cephalopods, chenopods, childhoods, chilopods, clods, cods, copepods, cordwoods, corkwoods, cottonwoods, cousinhoods, creaturehoods, dagwoods, deadwoods, decapods. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ODS": backwoodsman, backwoodsmen, backwoodsy, bloodshed, bloodsheds, bloodshot, bloodstain, bloodstained, bloodstains, bloodstock, bloodstocks, bloodstone, bloodstones, bloodstream, bloodstreams, bloodsucker, bloodsuckers, bloodsucking, codswallop, codswallops, foodstuff, foodstuffs, godsend, godsends, godship, godships, godson, godsons, podsol, podsolic, podsolization, podsolizations, podsols, rodsman, rodsmen, woodshed, woodshedded, woodshedding, woodsheds, woodsia, woodsias, woodsier, woodsiest, woodsman, woodsmen, woodstove, woodstoves, woodsy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dos, sod. | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-s" | |
-1 letter: do, od, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-s" | |
+1 letter: ados, bods, cods, docs, does, dogs, dols, doms, dons, dors, dose, doss, dost, dots, dows, duos, gods, hods, mods, nods, odds, odes, olds, ouds, pods, rods, shod, soda, sods, sold, sord, tods, udos, yods. | |
+2 letters: adios, apods, bodes, bolds, bonds, clods, codas, codes, coeds, colds, cords, dados, dagos, datos, decos, demos, dhows, didos, diols, dipso, disco, doats, docks, dodos, doers, doest, doffs, doges, doits, dojos, doles, dolls, dolts, domes, donas, dongs, donsy, dooms, doors, dopas, dopes, dorks, dorms, dorps, dorrs, dorsa, dosed, doser, doses, dotes, doums, douse, doves, downs, dowse, dozes, drops, dross, duros, eidos, fados, feods, fidos, folds, fonds, foods, fords, goads, golds, goods, gowds, holds, hoods, hosed, idols, judos, kudos, lidos, loads, lodes, lords, misdo, modes, modus, molds, moods, nodes, nodus, nosed, odist, odors, odyls, ordos, oxids, plods, ponds, poods, posed, prods, quods, redos, resod, roads, roods, rosed, sarod, scold, scrod, scudo, shoed, sloid, slojd, sloyd, snood, sodas, soddy, sodic, sodom, soldi, soldo, soled, solid, sonde, sords, sound, sowed, spado, spode, stood, sudor, sword, synod, toads, updos, voids, woads, wolds, woods, words, yodhs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 44 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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