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CSS

"CSS" is a plural of: cs.

"CSS" is a common misspelling or typo for: cusps, cuss.


Specialty Definition: CSS

DomainDefinition

Computing

CSS Cascading Style Sheets. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: CSS

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The abbreviation CSS can stand for any of several things:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CSS."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CSS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CSS

EnglishControlled Slip SecondsComputer - (DS1/E1)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CSS

Specialty definitions using "CSS": Cascading Style Sheets, CSS/II. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CSS

DomainTitle

References

  • CSS Industries Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • CSS Stellar PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • JavaScript + Css + DOM Magic (With CD-ROM) (reference)

  • Designing CSS Web Pages (reference)

  • The Use of Microworld Simulations to Train Theater Level CSS Staffs: Training Development Considerations (reference)

  • The CSS Hunley: The Greatest Undersea Adventure of the Civil War (reference)

  • DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: CSS

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Heavily retouched photograph taken circa 1861-65. He served in USS Kearsarge during the Civil War, reportedly firing the first and last guns during her engagement with CSS Alabama on 19 June 1864. Credit: NAVY.

Halftone reproduction of an artwork, copyrighted by G.S. Richardson, 1906, depicting the action between CSS Virginia and USS Monitor. Credit: NAVY.

A member of the Chaplain Corps from 1847 until 1862, he was the first U.S. Navy Chaplain to lose his life in battle. Chaplain Lenhart was killed in action during the 8 March 1862 action in Hampton Roads, Virginia, between USS Cumberland and CSS Virginia. Credit: NAVY.

Engraved portrait, published during the 19th Century. He commanded CSS Virginia following her battle with USS Monitor, and later was in charge of the Naval defenses of Georgia. Credit: NAVY.

Artwork reproduced as a halftone in Fiveash, "Virginia-Monitor Engagement", Norfolk, Va., 1907. He commanded CSS Virginia following her battle with USS Monitor, and later was in charge of the Naval defenses of Georgia. Credit: NAVY.

Late 19th Century line engraving by "Tab". He commanded CSS Tennessee during the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Credit: NAVY.

View in the Civil War exhibit area, March 1980, showing the sternpost of USS Kearsarge with an unexploded shell from CSS Alabama embedded in it, a relic of the 19 June 1864 battle between those two ships. Other artificts visible include the Historical Data Plaque of USS Cushing (DD-797), immediately to the right of the Kearsarge sternpost. Photographed by PH3c F. Brownson. Credit: NAVY.

Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 74, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts the attack on CSS Albemarle by a torpedo launch commanded by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864. The torpedo boat is shown crashing over Albemarle's protective log boom to deliver its torpedo against the ironclad's hull. Credit: NAVY.

A Civil War period photograph. He commanded CSS Selma during the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Note sword in his right hand. Credit: NAVY.

Colored lithograph of an artwork by B. Russell, depicting CSS Shenandoah's assault on the U.S. whale ships in the Bering Sea area. Individual items shown are (from left to right): brig Susan Abigail (burning); ship Euphrates (burning--distant); CSS Shenandoah; ship Jerah Swift (burning--distant); ship William Thompson (burning--distant); ship Sophia Thornton (burning); whaleboat going to warn other whalers (very distant); ship Milo which carried the destroyed vessels' crews to San Francisco; ice in the distance. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: CSS

"CSS" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "CSS" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)55.56%5157,705
Noun (proper)33.33%3202,518
Noun (singular)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: CSS

CountryNameCountryName
United Kingdom

CSS Stellar PLC

USA

CSS Industries Incorporated

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CSS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

css

1,004

css showing.com

27

ads.elong.com classic.css css en static us

195

css example

24

css tutorial

147

css web

24

css showings.com

132

css help neopets

22

css profile

101

alabama css

22

css hunley

76

css layout

22

adobe cgi css domain firework graphic hosting isp mysql name photo php shop site web xhtml

74

css industry

21

css editor

61

css filter

21

css help

58

background css

20

css showing

57

css scrollbar

20

css code

43

css form

20

classic.css css en netads.sohu.com static us

42

css template

19

css style sheet

40

button css

18

css style

36

css cursor

18

css generator

35

css background image

17

css table

35

css style text type

16

css html

34

css disc encrypted

15

css shopping network

31

css hover

15

css reference

31

css font

15

ad.xici.net classic.css css en static us

29

css menu

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CSS

Language Translations for "CSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Korean 

  

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Pig Latin

  

cssay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-s-s"
 

+1 letter: cess, coss, cuss, sacs, secs, sics.

 

+2 letters: ascus, casas, cases, casks, casts, casus, chess, cissy, cists, class, coses, costs, crass, cress, cross, cusks, cusps, cusso, cysts, discs, fiscs, sacks, scabs, scads, scags, scams, scans, scars, scats, scops, scots, scows, scuds, scums, scups, scuts, sects, sices, sicks, socks, specs, spics, sucks, syces, syncs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Company Usage
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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