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"CSS" is a plural of: cs. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CSS Cascading Style Sheets. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(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."
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CSS | English | Controlled Slip Seconds | Computer - (DS1/E1) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CSS |
| Specialty definitions using "CSS": Cascading Style Sheets, CSS/II. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | CSS Stellar PLC | USA | CSS Industries Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Korean | ì „íˆ¬ê·¼ë¬´ì§€ì›. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | cssay | ||||
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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