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POS
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Appendix:Variations of "pos"
English
Pronunciation
en En-au-POS.ogg AU
Noun
~ es +
en legal en proof of service.
en medicine en peripheral oxygen saturation.
en linguistics en part of speech.
en PoS
en Mirjam Sepesy Maučec; Zdravko Kačič Statistical Modelling of Highly Inflective Languages Juan Ramón Rabuñal Dopico; Julián Dorado de la Calle; Alejandro Pazos Sierra Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence !III (Mu–Z) Hershey, Pa. Information Science Reference 2009 1468 https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofar0003unse_y5f6/page/1468/mode/1up 1 978-1-59904-849-9 Eight POSs are defined in traditional English grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
en 2018 Clarence Green; James Lambert Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects Journal of English for Academic Purposes 35 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004 109 To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.
en retail en point of sale,point of service.
en computing en proprietary operating system.
en navigation aviation en position and orientation system.
en vulgar of a person or thing en piece of shit.
en P.O.S.
en 1997 w:Ed Solomon Men in Black (1997 film) Men in Black w:Agent J Will Smith Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.
en Sarreta “Whispers” Lopez I Have Recognized My Worth I Have Arrived w:AuthorHouse 2011 69 978-1-4634-1679-9 Everything you lost was because you are a P.O.S,
en 2014 Harmony Rose Married Under the Influence: A True Story Bloomington, IN Archway Publishing 9781480810525 yNyBBAAAQBAJ 78 POS I told him he is a POS for saying that to me (what a terrible thing to say to my husband! I am just as guilty sometimes for saying hurtful things), and how dare he try and hurt me in such a cruel way, telling me he hates me and wishing he could tell me he was unfaithful!
en Kenton Bartlett Change The World Needs You (A Pep Talk) C.E. Press 2015 387 978-1-304-69792-9 And you act in ways that make it right (i.e., voice says you’re a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs, which makes you act selfishly, which gives you reason to feel like a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs), because you don’t know what kind of person you’d be if you weren’t listening to this squawk, and you don’t know what else to do.
en Kathrine Jebsen Moore w:Claire Lehmann A Witch-hunt on Instagram https://quillette.com/2019/02/17/a-witch-hunt-on-instagram/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190302161347/https://quillette.com/2019/02/17/a-witch-hunt-on-instagram/ 2 March 2019 w:Quillette Sydney, N.S.W. 17 February 2019 Maria Tusken There have been many times I’ve had to keep my mouth shut due to fear of something like this happening. I have been called a ‘hateful racist POS [piece of shit].’
en Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.
Derived terms
retail en EFTPOS
en POS terminal
Descendants
ko 포스 1
Phrase
phr
en internet text messaging en parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).
en Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?
Anagrams
en ops sop ops Ops SPO OPS+ -spo OPS PSO OPs SOP S.O.P.
Italian
Alternative forms
it P.O.S.
it pos
Etymology
it en POS.
Pronunciation
pòs
Noun
it noun m plural POS o PP.O.S.
it payment method card reader