Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Initialism of outsize, clothes for large people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
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adj
Initialism of oversize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
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adj
Initialism of Old Style, a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
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adj
Abbreviation of offscreen, indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
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adj
Initialism of over shoulder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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adv
Initialism of overseas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism, not-comparable
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name
Initialism of Owen Sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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name
Initialism of The Ordnance Survey, official mapping agency in Great Britain (see also the noun below).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Old Saxon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
An Ordnance Survey map.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Initialism of operating system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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noun
Initialism of ordinary seaman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of oppidan scholar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Synonym of bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: bone
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noun
An opening or entrance to a passage, particularly one at either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: sometimes
Topics: anatomy, biology, botany, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: orifice
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noun
An osar or esker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative form of o's.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, rare
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noun
plural of O
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: connective tissue
Narrower terms: furcula, splint bone, pastern, fetter bone, cannon bone, fishbone, anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus, bare bone, cuboid bone, carpal bone, carpal, wrist bone, cartilage bone, centrum, cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum, clavicle, collarbone, coccyx, tail bone, dentine, dentin, ethmoid, ethmoid bone, heelbone, calcaneus, os tarsi fibulare, hipbone, innominate bone, hyoid, hyoid bone, os hyoideum, ilium, ischium, ischial bone, os ischii, long bone, os longum, ramus, membrane bone, metacarpal, metacarpal bone, metatarsal, nasal, nasal bone, os nasale, ossicle, bonelet, ossiculum, palatine, palatine bone, os palatinum, phalanx, pubis, pubic bone, os pubis, rib, costa, round bone, sacrum, scapula, shoulder blade, shoulder bone, sesamoid bone, sesamoid, os sesamoideum, short bone, os breve, sphenoid bone, sphenoid, os sphenoidale, sternum, breastbone, gladiolus, corpus sternum, manubrium, xiphoid process, tarsal, tarsal bone, temporal bone, os temporale, tooth, turbinate bone, turbinate, turbinal, tympanic bone, vertebra, zygoma, zygomatic arch, arcus zygomaticus, modiolus, lacrimal bone, skull, calvaria, skullcap, cranium, braincase, brainpan, occiput, sinciput, jaw, vomer, Wormian bone, sutural bone, marrowbone
noun
a mouth or mouthlike opening
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: orifice, opening, porta
noun
the left eye
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: oculus sinister
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eye, oculus, optic
noun
(computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: operating system
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: software, software program, computer software, software system, software package, package
Narrower terms: DOS, disk operating system, UNIX, UNIX system, UNIX operating system, Windows
noun
a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: osmium, atomic number 76
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
History
Unadapted borrowing from Latin os (“bone”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1óh3s Proto-Italic *ōs Latin ōsubor. English os Unadapted borrowing from Latin ōs (“mouth”).
Borrowed from Swedish ås.
From o + -s.
Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
