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ODS

Definition: ODS

ODS

Interjection

1. A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ODS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Specialty Definitions: ODS

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ODS

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ODS

EnglishOdessaN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: ODS

Specialty definitions using "ODS": Ozone depleting substance. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ODS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Guidebook for Implementation of Codes of Good Practice: Refrigeration Sector, 1998, Phasing Out Ods in Developing Countries (reference)

  • ODS Import/Export Licensing Systems Resource Module: Promoting Compliance with the Trade and Licensing Provisions of the Montreal Protocol in Countries with Economies in Transition - Policy Design and Setting up of Legislation (reference)

  • ODS NETWORKS, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • Recovery and Recycling Systems: Guidelines - Phasing Out ODS in Developing Countries: Refrigeration Sector (reference)

  • Vitamin C and the Scurvy-Prone Ods Rat (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ODS

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: ODS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)91.18%3162,296
Noun (plural)5.88%2245,945
Lexical Verb (-s form)2.94%1339,140
                    Total100.00%34N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ODS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: ODS

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

   

Spanish

  

aleación endurecida por dispersión de oxidos (ODS alloy, oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ODS

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).

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Anagrams: ODS

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ODS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 44 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "ODS"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "ODS"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: ODS