POSS

Definition: POSS

POSS

Transitive verb

1. To push; to dash; to throw.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Poss \Poss\, transitive verb. [See Push.]. (Websters 1913)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: POSS

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
POSS	English	Passive Optical Satellite Surveillance(System)	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: POSS

Specialty definitions using "POSS": Adger ♦ farkled ♦ gumby ♦ system mangler ♦ turist. (references)

Etymologies containing "POSS": my. (references)

Non-English Usage: "POSS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (bedpost).

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Commercial Usage: POSS

Domain	Title
Books	Little Poss and Horrible Hound (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: POSS

"POSS" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "POSS" 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
Unclassified Items	42.86%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	38.1%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.52%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	9.52%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: POSS

The following table summarizes the usage of "POSS" 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
Poss	Last name	1,000	9,406
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POSS

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
poss	31
michael poss	12
poss test	4
poss realty	4
halfnight poss	4
21 century poss realty	3
eei poss test	3
poss rick	3
as as detail include much poss	2
mass poss test	2
eei mass poss test	2
eei poss	2
clown insane poss	2
kim poss	2
mass poss	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POSS

Language		Translations for "POSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		возможный (affordable, conceivable, eventual, feasible, like, poss possible, possible, presumable, probable, thinkable), вероятный (believable, credible, interquartile, likely, poss possible, possible, presumable, probabilistic, probable, verisimilar). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: POSS

Derivations
	Words beginning with "POSS": posse, posses, possess, possessed, possessedly, possessedness, possessednesses, possesses, possessing, possession, possessional, possessionless, possessions, possessive, possessively, possessiveness, possessivenesses, possessives, possessor, possessors, possessory, posset, possets, possibilities, possibility, possible, possibler, possiblest, possibly, possum, possums. (additional references)
	Words containing "POSS": dispossess, dispossessed, dispossesses, dispossessing, dispossession, dispossessions, dispossessor, dispossessors, impossibilities, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, impossiblenesses, impossibly, nonpossession, nonpossessions, opossum, opossums, prepossess, prepossessed, prepossesses, prepossessing, prepossession, prepossessions, repossess, repossessed, repossesses, repossessing, repossession, repossessions, repossessor, repossessors, unprepossessing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "POSS"

Words ending with "oss": JOSS, loss, OSS. (additional references)

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Anagrams: POSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sops.
	Words within the letters "o-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: ops, sop, sos.
	-2 letters: op, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "o-p-s-s"
	+1 letter: pesos, pisos, poses, posse, posts, pross, psoas, scops, shops, slops, soaps, sophs, soups, spots, stops, swops, sysop.
	+2 letters: copses, dipsos, eposes, estops, gossip, hyssop, knosps, opsins, opuses, paseos, pestos, piscos, poises, posers, posies, posits, posses, posset, possum, proses, prosos, ptoses, ptosis, pyoses, pyosis, sapors, scoops, scopes, sepoys, sloops, slopes, snoops, sopors, splosh, spodes, spoils, spokes, spoofs, spooks, spools, spoons, spoors, spores, sports, spouse, spouts, stomps, stoops, stopes, stoups, stowps, strops, swoops, sysops, tossup, uptoss.
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