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Doss

Definition: Doss

Doss

Verb

1. Sleep in a convenient place; "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "doss" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Note: Doss \Doss\, noun. [Etym. uncertain.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Doss

DomainDefinition

Literature

Doss A hassock stuffed with straw; a bed - properly, a straw bed; whence the cant word for a lodging-house is a dossingken. Dossel is an old word for a bundle of hay or straw, and dosser for a straw basket. These words were common in Elizabeth's reign. The French dossier means a "bundle." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Doss

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

DOSS

EnglishDioctylsodiumsulfosuccinateN/A

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

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Synonyms: Doss

Synonyms: crash (v), doss down (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Doss

Specialty definitions using "doss": OLD DOSS. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Doss" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (bouquet, bun, bunch, clump, clumsy, drone, mop of hair, tussock).

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Commercial Usage: Doss

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Doss

"Doss" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 55.17% of the time. "Doss" is used about 29 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)55.17%1687,710
Noun (singular)37.93%11106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)6.9%2245,945
                    Total100.00%29N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Doss

The following table summarizes the usage of "doss" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DossLast name9,0001,411
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Doss


1. Doss, TX
Zip Code(s): 78618
Country: USA

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Expressions: Doss

Expressions using "doss": doss down Doss house it's a doss. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "doss": doss-house, doss-houses.

Containing "doss": youth-hostel-cum-doss-house.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Doss

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

doss lynn terri

50

prudential doss illinois

3

doss

40

prudential doss elgin

3

conya doss

31

doss illinois

3

doss print

26

doss geneva

3

rick doss

22

doss elgin

3

doss mike

20

prudential doss geneva

3

doss rocket

12

bike doss kit rocket

3

david doss

12

doss high school

3

doss mack

9

prudential doss naperville

3

doss lynn terry

7

prudential doss elburn

3

aviation doss

7

prudential doss batavia

3

desmond doss

7

charles doss prudential st

3

doss lynn teri

7

charles doss st

3

doss tx

6

prudential doss real estate chicago

3

doss texas

6

doss batavia

3

doss nannie

5

doss oswego

3

james doss

3

prudential doss oswego

3

rick doss inc

3

doss plainfield

3

michael doss

3

prudential doss plainfield

3

doss real estate chicago

3

prudential doss yorkville

3

james d doss

3

doss yorkville

3

prudential doss real estate oswego

3

doss elburn

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Doss

Language Translations for "doss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtrat në një fjetore të lirë, gjumë (dreamland, repose, rest, shut eye, sleep, slumber). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نام (fall asleep, go to sleep, hibernate, sleep, slumber, vegetative), ‏سرير مؤقت. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сън (bye bye, dream, kip, repose, sleep), спане (bye bye, kip, sleep), нощувам (sleep), място за спане (roost), легло (bed, bunk, bye bye, cushion, hay, kip, mounting, pad, pillow block, sack). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zdřímnutí (catnap, doze, forty winks, nap, snooze), pelech (den, lair), šlofík (catnap, snooze). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yömaja (casual ward, doss house, night shelter). (various references)

   

French

  

pieu, nicher, coucher (bed down, lay down). (various references)

   

German

  

penne (doss house, flophouse). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מלון זול (doss house, motel). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ágy (bed, berth, couch, kip, sack). (various references)

   

Italian

  

dormitorio (dorm, dormitory, doss house, sleeping quarters). (various references)

   

Manx

  

feddyn thie lhiabbagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ossday

   

Portuguese

  

dormir (be asleep, fall asleep, kip, lie, rest, sleep), descansar (breathe, halt, lie by, lounge, recess, repose, respire, rest, sleep, take a rest, unyoke), sonho (dream, fried cake, gem, reverie, shut-eye, sinker), repousar (doze, lair, lean, lie, pillow, recline, repose, rest, sleep), ideal (abstract, dream, fancy, ideal, notional, pattern), fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasm, phantasy, reverie, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical), estar inativo (sleep), adormecer (drop out, fall asleep, go numb, sleep). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dormi într-un azil de noapte, pat (bed, bedstead, bunk, cot, couch, layer, pad, pallet, stalemate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сон (dream, dreamland, dreamworld, rest, shut eye, shuteye, shut-eye, sleep, slumber), спать (be asleep, kip, repose, rest, sleep, sleeps, slept, slumber), кровать в ночлежном доме. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spavanje (shut eye, sleeping), krevet (bed, flea-bag, kip), ići na spavanje (go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, retire, turn in). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dormir (be asleep, bunk down, doze, kip, live, roost, sleep, slumber), reposo (distraction, interlude, landing, quiet, repose), reposar (couch, lie, lie up, repose, rest, take a rest). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slafa på ungkarlshotell, slaf på ungkarlshotell. (various references)

   

Thai

  

นอนในที่พักราคาถูก (คำสแลง). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yatak (bearings, bed, berth, bunk, bye bye, den, flop, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, recess, sack, seam, seating, seminary), uyumak (be asleep, be inactive, go to sleep, have rest, kip, rest, sleep, slumber, snooze), pansiyonda kalmak, pansiyon yatağı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сон (dream, dreamland, shut eye, sleep, sleeping, slumber), спати (be asleep, kip, sleep, take a rest), ночувати (bed, sleep), ліжко (bed, bedstead, berth, bunk, kip), буцати (push). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Doss

Derivations

Words beginning with "doss": dossal, dossals, dossed, dossel, dossels, dosser, dosseret, dosserets, dossers, dosses, dossier, dossiers, dossil, dossils, dossing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Doss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aoss, dass, Dassu, dazz, deossum, Dessi, diss, dobs, dods, dois, doos, dosa, dosi, dosis, dosk, dosn, Dossa, Dossi, Dosso, dossy, dosy, dows, doys, doz, drs, dso, dss, Duessa, ldos, Qdos, xdos. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Doss"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "doss" (pronounced dô"s)
3d ô" sdos.
2-ô" sacross, boss, cos, Coss, cross, dross, emboss, gloss, Joss, Koss, lacrosse, loss, moss, Pross, recross, sauce, toss.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Doss

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sods.

Words within the letters "d-o-s-s"

-1 letter: dos, ods, sod, sos.

-2 letters: do, od, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "d-o-s-s"
 

+1 letter: doses, dross, sodas, sords.

 

+2 letters: bossed, dipsos, discos, dosers, dossal, dossed, dossel, dosser, dosses, dossil, douses, dowses, drossy, mossed, odists, resods, sarods, scolds, scrods, sloids, slojds, sloyds, snoods, sodoms, solids, sondes, sounds, soused, spodes, sudors, swords, synods, tossed.

 

+3 letters: adsorbs, aldoses, bossdom, cissoid, crossed, damsons, demoses, deposes, desorbs, despots, disowns, dispose, dobsons, dorsals, dorsels, dorsers, dosages, dossals, dossels, dossers, dossier, dossils, dossing, dousers, dowsers, droskys, drosses, drowses, escudos, flossed, gessoed, glossed, goddess, godless, godsons, grossed, iodises, iodisms, isodose, isopods, lassoed, misdoes, misshod, moussed, oddness, odyssey, oldness, osmosed, osmunds, passado, podsols, posadas, pseudos, psocids, rodless, sarodes, schrods, seadogs, seconds, shadows, shrouds, skidoos, sloshed, soddens, soddies, sodiums, solands, soldans, solders, solidus, sonders, sordors, soudans, speedos, spoused, stodges, stounds, strouds, studios, sundogs, swounds, wisdoms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Doss


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

44 6F 73 73

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)

-..    ---    ...    ...

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38818585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Cities
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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