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Definition: TSS |
TSSNoun1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "TSS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| 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 |
TSS | English | Trading Standards Service | N/A |
TSS | Italian | Schermo sensibile al tocco | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TSSSynonyms: toxic shock (n), toxic shock syndrome (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: TSS |
| Specialty definitions using "TSS": lcc. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | To better define the risk factors of nonmenstrual TSS to design prevention strategies. (references) | |
To describe the current epidemiology of TSS in the United States by conducting active surveillance. (references) | ||
TSS has been associated with use of tampons and intravaginal contraceptive devices in women and occurs as a complication of skin abscesses or surgery. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Guyana | TSS officers also fired shots to disperse the crowd. (references) |
Guyana | On July 26, members of the TSS shot and killed three men--John Bruce, Steve Grant, and Adisena Houston--on Mandela Avenue. (references) | |
Guyana | Hoyte claimed that nearly all of the extrajudicial killings during the past 8 years remain uninvestigated, and accused the TSS of operating under political protection. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TSS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "TSS" is used about 10 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) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Germany | InnoTec TSS AG |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
tss | 183 |
2.5 5 5 dave macintosh tss user user version | 17 |
yamaha tss | 13 |
nti tss | 12 |
symptom tss | 10 |
tss 1 yamaha | 9 |
10 tss yamaha | 5 |
daily spoiler tss | 4 |
swinger tss | 4 |
tss 1 | 4 |
yamaha tss 1b | 4 |
tss tuning | 3 |
nti tinnitus tss | 3 |
tss worker | 3 |
technology tss | 2 |
bod lignin settleable solid tss | 2 |
bultaco tss | 2 |
tss 1b | 2 |
rotterdam tss | 2 |
tampons tss | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: psst, sets, sits, sots, tass, toss, tsks. | |
+2 letters: asset, basts, bests, busts, casts, cists, costs, cysts, dusts, easts, fasts, fists, gasts, gests, gists, gusts, hests, hists, hosts, jests, justs, kists, lasts, lists, lusts, masts, mists, mosts, musts, nests, oasts, ousts, pasts, pests, posts, rests, rusts, salts, sates, satis, sayst, scats, scots, scuts, seats, sects, septs, setts, sexts, shist, shits, shots, shuts, sifts, silts, sites, situs, skats, skits, slats, slits, slots, sluts, smuts, snits, snots, softs, soots, sorts, soths, spats, spits, spots, stabs, stags, stars, stash, stats, stays, stems, steps, stets, stews, sties, stirs, stoas, stobs, stops, stoss, stows, stubs, studs, stums, stuns, styes, suets, suits, swats, swots, tasks, tasse, tests, trass, tress, truss, tsars, tusks, vasts, vests, wasts, wests, wists, xysts, zests. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 53 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0053 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)545353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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