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Definition: Doss |
DossVerb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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 |
DOSS | English | Dioctylsodiumsulfosuccinate | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DossSynonyms: crash (v), doss down (v). (additional references) |
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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 55.17% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.93% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Doss | Last name | 9,000 | 1,411 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Doss, TX |
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 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) dormi într-un azil de noapte, pat (bed, bedstead, bunk, cot, couch, layer, pad, pallet, stalemate). (various references) 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) 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) 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) slafa på ungkarlshotell, slaf på ungkarlshotell. (various references) นอนในที่พักราคาถูก (คำสแลง). (various references) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doss": dossal, dossals, dossed, dossel, dossels, dosser, dosseret, dosserets, dossers, dosses, dossier, dossiers, dossil, dossils, dossing. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doss" (pronounced dô"s) |
| 3 | d ô" s | dos. |
| 2 | -ô" s | across, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0073 0073 |
| 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)38818585 |
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