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DS en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of drug susceptible or drug sensitive.

Forms

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D. S. alternative lexicographic
D.S. alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

DR

Source: en.wiktionary, “DS” (adj), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

DS en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, countable, initialism, uncountable, usually) Initialism of double strength.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of Down syndrome.
  3. (Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of Douglas Score (point ranking for deer antlers).
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of detective sergeant; a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable) Clipping of Nintendo DS.
    • It's been rumored for months, but Square Enix finally made it official: Kingdom Hearts is coming to DS. 2007 December 14, “Big in Japan”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 16:
    • 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. 2025 December 24, Mamadou Ndiaye, “Why You Never Look This Shark in the Eyes”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtIt3cIv9Rc&t=255s, Casual Geographic
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable) Clipping of DS Automobiles.
  7. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable) Initialism of directing staff.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of disjunctive syllogism.
    • 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). 2004 August, J. L. Schellenberg, “The Atheist’s Free Will Offence”, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, volume 56, № 1, pages 11-12:
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of dal segno.
    alt of dal segno
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of dear/darling son.
    • 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. 2011 March 17, Toby Young, “Mumsnet isn't representative of the 'squeezed middle'. It's just a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2011:
  11. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of D/s.
    alt of D/s
  12. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of decision science.

Forms

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DSs Number=Plur lexicographic
D.S. alternative lexicographic
D. S. alternative lexicographic
DSes Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

DS-TB

Relateds

DI (policing) · DC (policing) · DCI (policing) · supt. (policing) · PC (policing) · WPC (policing)

Source: en.wiktionary, “DS” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

DS en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Discord.
    alt of Discord

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