ds
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
plural of D
noun
plural of d
adj
adj
Initialism of drug susceptible or drug sensitive.
noun
Initialism of Douglas Score (point ranking for deer antlers).
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Initialism of detective sergeant; a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It's been rumored for months, but Square Enix finally made it official: Kingdom Hearts is coming to DS."
- "If you make a shark that looks like a kid caught with a DS under the pillow at 2 AM choose violence, you asked for it in everything but writing."
- "Let ‘F’ stand for the state of affairs that consists in finite persons possessing and exercising free will. Let ‘p’ stand for ‘God exists’; ‘q’ for ‘F obtains’; ‘r’ for ‘F poses a serious risk of evil’; and ‘s’ for ‘There is no option available to God that counters F.’ With this in place, the argument may be formalized as follows: (1) [(p & q) & r] → s Premiss (2) ~s Premiss (3) ~[(p & q) & r] 1, 2 MT (4) ~(p & q) v ~r 3 DM (5) r Premiss (6) ~(p & q) 4, 5 DS (7) ~p v ~q 6 DM (3) follows from the conjunction of (1) and (2) by modus tollens; De Morgan’s law applied to (3) yields (4); (4) and (5) together lead to (6) by disjunctive syllogism; and another application of De Morgan’s law takes us from (6) to the final conclusion, according to which either God exists or there is free will (but not both)."
- "You can get the general idea from a recent comment in response to a request from a mother for advice on where to send her DS (Darling Son) to school."