Or So

Definition: Or So

Or So

Adverb

1. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party".

Synonyms: Or So

Synonyms: about (adv), approximately (adv), around (adv), close to (adv), just about (adv), more or less (adv), roughly (adv), some (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Or So

Etymologies containing "or so": Apophyllite ♦ Boyer ♦ Castanets ♦ Diabase ♦ Embolus ♦ Faldistory, Frisket ♦ grenade ♦ hepatica ♦ ichneumon, Inebrious ♦ macaroni, Manis ♦ Overstand ♦ Paletot, Pennyroyal, Phasmid, Pinnipedia ♦ Sycee, sylph ♦ Tetradymite, thallium, trypsin ♦ Wasium ♦ Yellow-covered. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Or so I've read in books. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Or so they say. Can you think of a better way to keep people away? (Batman Beyond; writing credit: Hilary Bader; Stan Berkowitz) Powerful enough to even deflect the path of a bullet - at long range, or so Q claims (Live and Let Die; writing credit: Tom Mankiewicz)
Lyrics	Well I was down there in 'bout an hour or so (The Fireman; performing artist: George Strait) Or so they say (Paradise City; performing artist: Guns N' Roses) Yeah, Kill me a thousand or so (Draft Dodger Rag; performing artist: Phil Ochs) Here's to the good life or so they say (In A Little While; performing artist: Uncle Kracker)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Beyond Antibiotics: 50 (Or So) Ways to Boost Immunity and Avoid Antibiotics (reference) Or So I Say : Contentions and Confessions (A Happenstance Book) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	It will take me an hour or so, I'm afraid, said Moore politely. Credit: Library of Congress.		I dare say that it was twenty minutes or so that I lay paralyzed and watched its face. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Or so it seems. Credit: Library of Congress.		Charlotte Court House, Va. June 1943. Central high school band every month or so marches up Main Street to give drills and a concert. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Alexander Klemin	In the development of no other branch of engineering has scientific work been so intensive or so rapid as in aeronautics.
Pierre Corneille	I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
Walter Savage Landor	Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Signs and symptoms of infection may take a week or so after ingestion of eggs to develop. (references)
		Occasionally, buboes cannot be detected for a day or so after the onset of other symptoms. (references)
		Sometimes the signs and symptoms of a PI are so severe, or so characteristic, that the diagnosis is obvious. (references)
Business		Subsequently he continued services but for only 20 or so believers. (references)
		Small subcontractors - often comprised of only ten or so employees - run factories using numerically controlled (NC) machine tools. (references)
		In 1984 there were about 370-million telephone main lines - that number has risen to 685-million plus a further 87-million or so subscribers to cellular radio services. (references)
Economic History	Italy	Of about 90 daily newspapers in Italy, only a dozen or so are distributed throughout the country. (references)
	Rwanda	Up to 800,000 had been murdered, another 2 million or so had fled, and another million or so were displaced internally. (references)
	Costa Rica	They will then typically contact ten or so different franchise companies in that market segment for comparison purposes. (references)
Trade	China	Many of the 240 or so international trust and investment corporations (ITICs) established by government agencies and provincial authorities, however, experienced severe liquidity problems after the bankruptcy of the Guangdong International Trust and Investment Corporation (GITIC) in late 1998. The largest surviving ITIC is China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC), which has a banking subsidiary known as CITIC Industrial Bank. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Today, too many of our schools are so old they're falling apart, or so over-crowded students are learning in trailers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "or so": a year or so ago ♦ be a sheet or so. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "or so"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏حوالي (about, almost, around, nearly, some, upon). (various references)

Chinese		百�'八十 (a hundred or so, about a hundred), 百十 (a hundred or so), 十幾個月 (about ten months, ten months or so). (various references)

Czech		přibližnì (about, approximately, circa, roughly, some). (various references)

Finnish		viitisenkymmentä (about fifty, fifty or so, some fifty), satakunta (a hundred or so, about a hundred), niillä main (. . or so, thereabouts), kymmenkunta vuotta (ten years or so). (various references)

French		environ. (various references)

German		so (about, also, as, for nothing, like this, most, oh, really, right, se, so, so much, such, that way, this way, thus, well). (various references)

Greek		περίπου (about, approximate, approximately, circa, in the region of, opus so, pretty much, some). (various references)

Hungarian		körülbelül (about, approximately, around, circa, in the neighbourhood of, in the vicinity of sg, round, some, something like, towards, vicinity). (various references)

Italian		circa (about, approximately, concerning, just about, more or less, on, round, some, someplace, somewhere). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		そうでない� �合は (about, careless, go that far, hurriedly, if this is not the case, in a hurry, no more than, only, thoughtless, to that extent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そ�"そ�" (about, no more than, only). (various references)

Pig Latin		oray osay

Romanian		sau cam aşa ceva, aproximativ (about, approx., approximate, approximately, approximative, at a rough estimate, circa, general, much, near, nearly, quasi, rough, roughly, round, roundabout, some, thereabouts). (various references)

Russian		или около того. (various references)

Swedish		häromåret (a year or so ago). (various references)

Turkish		filan (and so on), falan (and so on, like, re, so and so), öyle birşey. (various references)

Ukranian		приблизно (about, approximately, around, in the rough, just about, more or less, rough, some, something). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Daniel Chapter 13, Verse 32
Latin	405	Vulgate	At iniqui illi iusserunt ut discoperiretur erat enim cooperta ut vel sic satiarentur decore eius
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And the ylke wickid men comaundeden, that she shulde be vnkeuered, sothely she was hillid; that or so thei weren fulfillid with fairnesse of hir.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Daniel Chapter 13, Verse 32
Croatian	Kako bijaše pod koprenom, oni bezakonici narediše da skine koprenu da bi se nasitili njezine ljepote.
Italian	aveva il velo e quei perversi ordinarono che le fosse tolto per godere almeno così della sua bellezza.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Or So" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Orso. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "o-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: ors.
	-2 letters: or, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "o-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: boors, broos, doors, moors, odors, ordos, orzos, proso, roods, roofs, rooks, rooms, roose, roost, roots, rotos, sopor, sorgo, spoor, toros, torso.
	+2 letters: arioso, borons, bromos, broods, brooks, brooms, colors, cooers, crooks, croons, dobros, dolors, donors, drools, droops, floors, grooms, honors, irokos, karoos, kouros, kroons, looser, morons, morose, morros, motors, nooser, odours, orison, orlops, pooris, pornos, porose, porous, promos, proofs, prosos, robots, rodeos, romeos, rondos, roosed, rooser, rooses, roosts, roscoe, rotors, scroop, sooner, sopors, sordor, sorgho, sorgos, sorrow, spoors, strook, torose, torous, torsos, troops, vrooms, wooers.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 72 53 6F

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

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

01001111 01110010 00100000 01010011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#114 &#32 &#83 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0072 0053 006F

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

498425381

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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור�'מ� ות, תר�'ום, �"עתק�", �"עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい�"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, �"うどく, ほ�"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ�"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th� nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation;
Arabies, arabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, � าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic;
Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита�"ць, for Chinese;
Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체�", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech;
Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי� י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란�"�, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish;
Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス�" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ�", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, �"�랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏المانية, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, �"ερμανός, gjermanisht, �'רמ� י, �'רמ� ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, � าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German;
Grieks, Griek, ‏الإغريقي, ‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו� ית, יו� י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア�", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b� gi� gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l� kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek;
Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, �"ו� �'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, ‏شخص إيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏الإيطالي, ‏إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, � าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі�"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian;
Roemeen, rumun, Rumanu, румънски език, румънски, румънец, Romanyan, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, rumæner, Roemeens, rumenskt, romanialainen, roumain, Roemeensk, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, romanés, român, румын, румынский, rumunski, rumunski jezik, rumano, rumänsk, румунська мова, румун, румунський, румунка, for Romanian;
Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア�", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン�", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน � าษาและวั�'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ�"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;

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