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Definition: BS

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A bachelor's degree in science.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"BS" is a common misspelling or typo for: be, bus, bgs, SB, lbs, cbs, ns, BSC, BST, pbs, bes, bis, bas, abs, IBS, BD, Obs, BSB, tbs, bhs, BX, BCS, sbs, BSA, BSI, BW, BRS, BSE, nbs, BSD, bps, BSM, Bos, kbs, dbs, mbs, BBS, hbs, FBS, gbs, BSS, EbS, BTS, BNS, bls, bys, VBS, wbs.

Date "BS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1640. (references)

Specialty Definition: BS

Domain Definition
Computing BS Backspace, the mnemonic for ASCII 8. (1996-06-24) bs The country code for the Bahamas. (1999-01-27) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Aerospace 1: Block Specification. (references)
  2: Natural forest biomass burned onsite. (references)
  3: Basic Software (NASDA). (references)
Environment Blowdown suppression. (references)
Library Science Behavioral Science. Co-sponsored by the Fund for the Behavioral Sciences and The Institute of Management Sciences. Baltimore, Md. (references)
Military 1: Battleship Squadron. (references)
  2: 1) Battle staff. 2) Broadcast source. (references)
  3: Boston (Navy Yard). (references)
  4: Busch Sulzer (ship engines). (references)
Technology 1: Bachelor of Science. (references)
  2: Backing Store. (references)
  3: Base Station. (references)
  4: Battle Staff. (references)
  5: British Standard. (references)
  6: Billing System. (references)
  7: Bi-Synchronous. (references)
  8: Broadcasting Service. (references)

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

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Common Expressions: BS

Expressions Definition
BS 1363 BS 1363 (British Standard) is the standard that defines what is colloquially called the 13 amp plug, which is the most common type of mains power plug in the British Isles. Other plug types such as IEC 309 and BS 546 are only seen in old installations and specialised applications where either the BS 1363 plug is unsuitable or where mateability with the standard variety is not desired. (references)
BS 5950 BS 5950 is the British Standard for the design, fabrication and erection of structural steelwork. BS 5950 replaced BS 449, which used a permissible stress approach, and uses limit state design methods. It is written for use in the UK but can be used worldwide. It is expected that the code will eventually be superseded by BS EN 1993 when Eurocodes are more widely adopted. (references)
BS 7671 BS 7671 is a publication from the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) in agreement with the BSI British Standards Institute (UK). The BSI publish numerous titles concerning acceptable standards of design/safety/quality etc. in various fields. (references)
BS 7799 BS 7799 Part 1 was a standard originally published as BS 7799 by the British Standards Institute (BSI) in 1995. It was written by the United Kingdom Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and after several revisions, was eventually adopted by ISO as ISO 17799, "Information Technology - Code of practice for information security management." ISO 17799 was most recently revised in June 2005. (references)
BS 8110 BS 8110 is a British Standard for the structural use of concrete. (references)
BS Mardhekar Bal Sitaram Mardhekar (1909-1956) brought about a radical shift of sensibility in Marathi poetry. He was educated in Pune and London and worked with the All India Radio till his death. His earlier collection was `Shishiraagam'was a product of typical Ravi Kiran Mandal poetry: sentimental, lyrical and conventional. But his later `avant-garde' collection brought about a storm in Marathi literary world. Similar to what Baudelaire did for the French poetry, he did for Marathi poetry by bringing in the decadent urban ethos . He was influenced by the Marathi bhakti poetry and the poetry of TS Eliot. He was also an influential critic and an experimental novelist. His novels are attempts to bring in the stream of consciousness technique into Marathi. (references)
BS Sure Shot Wołomin BS Sure Shot Wołomin is a Polish women basketball team, based in Wolomin, playing in Sharp Torell Basket Liga. (references)
Strætó bs Strætó bs (Formerly: SVR, Strætisvagnar Reykjavíkur) is a public transport company which operates city buses in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavík and surrounding satellite towns and suburbs. The buses are bright yellow and are commonly called 'Strætó' by the locals. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BS

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
BS Danish Bahamas Geography
BS Dutch Bahama's Geography
BS English Bachelor of Science N/A
BS Finnish Bahama Geography
BS French Espacement arrière Computing
BS German Betriebssystem Computing
BS Greek Μπαχάμες Geography
BS Italian Commonwealth delle Bahamas Geography
BS Portuguese Baamas Geography
BS Spanish Commonwealth de las Bahamas Geography
BS Swedish Samväldet Bahamas Geography
BS Eng English Bachelor of Sanitary Engineering N/A
BSW English BS and W Mining
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: BS

BS

The first of these Claudian letters is the antisigma. It looks as a reversed C and Claudius introduced it to replace the combinations BS and PS.
The first of these Claudian letters is the antisigma. It looks as a reversed C and Claudius introduced it to replace the combinations BS and PS.

BS, B.S., Bs or bs is an abbreviation with multiple meanings, including:

  • Bachelor of Science degree, also abbreviated BSc
  • Bachelor of Surgery
  • Bullshit, as a somewhat more polite abbreviation for a derogatory negative in English, a card game, a TV series starring Penn & Teller
  • Backspace and the backspace control character in the C0 control code set
  • Backstab often used in video games with the phrase "no bs" (no backstabbing) to deter people who would attack their own allies
  • [BS] - business standart
  • Back Stage
  • Bahamas (ISO 2-letter country code)
    • .bs, ccTLD for the Bahamas
  • Balance Sheet
  • BASIC or cyBASIC (file extension)
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Baritone Saxophone, a musical instrument
  • Bart Simpson, a character of the animated series; "The Simpsons"
  • Basel-Stadt, the Swiss canton
  • Ordo Basilianus Ssmi Salvatoris Melkitarum (Arrouhbaniat Albassiliat Almoukhalissiat/Institute of Consecrated Life), a Roman Catholic Monastic Order
  • Bassas da India
  • BellSouth, a United States incumbent phone company
  • Bee Sting, the simple act of being stung by a bee
  • Benjamin Sisko
  • Bruce Springsteen, an American musician
  • Bible study (Christian)
  • Big Sister family
  • Billy Sheehan, a bass player
  • BioShock, a first-person shooter created by Irrational Games.
  • Black Sabbath, a heavy metal band formed in 1969
  • Blacksmith, someone whom forges items out of metal
  • Bolívar, symbol for the Venzuelan currency
  • Bonus Stage, a webtoon
  • Bosnian language (ISO 639 alpha-2, bs)
  • BotServ (IRC Bot Server)
  • Boundary stone
  • Boy Scouts, A group of boys that do mostly outdoor things or character building
  • Bologna sandwich, a type of sandwich usually filled with bologna and cheese
  • Blood Star (Diablo game)
  • Blood sugar in medical shorthand
  • Bow string
  • Braunschweig, a town in Germany
  • Bridgestone, Japanese rubber conglomerate
  • Broadband Storm
  • Bristol postal sorting office, the United Kingdom post code for the region in western England
  • British Shipbuilders
  • British Standards
  • British Sugar, private company
  • BS, a common keyboard shortcut for Build Supply Depot in the Blizzard game Starcraft©
  • BS, a range of buses manufactured by GM Daewoo
  • BS, NHK's satellite broadcaster mark of NHK-BS
  • BS, for Biuro Szyfrów - The agency that solved the Enigma machine with plugboard, the main German cipher device during World War II
  • BS or BraveSentry, a clone of SpySheriff
  • Britney Spears, American singer
  • British International Helicopters (BS), the IATA code
  • Brodosplit, A shipyard company in Split, Croatia
  • Broadcasting Satellite, a sort of japanese communication satellites.
  • Broadcast Satellaview, a satellite modem add-on for Nintendo's Super Famicom system in Japan.
  • Bubble sort, a sorting algorithm.
  • Bus stop, a place where a bus stops
  • Bumper Sticker, a sticker on the back of a vehicle's bumper with a picture or short message written on it
  • Business Studies
  • Base Transceiver Station or just Base station, a node in a mobile telephony network.
  • B.S., abbreviation for Bikram Sambat - the Nepali calendar

Sports

  • Blocked Shot in basketball statistics
  • Blown Save in baseball statistics

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



Topics by Level of Interest: BS

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
BS 6312 32     Back on My BS 20
BS 1363 27     BS 8
BS Zelda no Densetsu Kodai no Sekiban 24     BS 1088 5
Back on My BS 20     BS 1363 27
BS Zelda no Densetsu 18     BS 2000 3
BS postcode area 12     BS 25999 9
BS 546 10     BS 4994 4
BS Tantei Club: Yuki ni Kieta Kako 10     BS 5454 3
BS 25999 9     BS 546 10
BS 8     BS 5930 3
BS Energy Braunschweig 7     BS 5950 3
Pure BS 7     BS 6312 32
Strætó bs 6     BS 7671 6
BS 7671 6     BS 7799 5
BS 1088 5     BS 7925-1 3
BS 7799 5     BS 7925-2 3
Library of Congress Classification:Class B, subclass BS -- The Bible 4     BS 7988 4
Three Bs 4     BS 8110 3
BS BolticGöta 4     BS 8494 2
BS ISO 20022-1: 4     BS BolticGöta 4
BS 7988 4     BS Energy Braunschweig 7
BS 4994 4     BS Fabrications 3
BS 5950 3     BS ISO 20022-1: 4
BS 8110 3     BS postcode area 12
BS 5454 3     BS Sure Shot Wołomin 3
BS Fabrications 3     BS Tantei Club: Yuki ni Kieta Kako 10
BS 5930 3     BS Zelda no Densetsu 18
BS 7925-2 3     BS Zelda no Densetsu Kodai no Sekiban 24
BS 7925-1 3     Falu BS 1
BS Sure Shot Wołomin 3     Library of Congress Classification:Class B, subclass BS -- The Bible 4
BS 2000 3     Pure BS 7
BS 8494 2     Strætó bs 6
Falu BS 1     Three Bs 4

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"BS" is a common misspelling or typo for: be, bus, bgs, SB, lbs, cbs, ns, BSC, BST, pbs, bes, bis, bas, abs, IBS, BD, Obs, BSB, tbs, bhs, BX, BCS, sbs, BSA, BSI, BW, BRS, BSE, nbs, BSD, bps, BSM, Bos, kbs, dbs, mbs, BBS, hbs, FBS, gbs, BSS, EbS, BTS, BNS, bls, bys, VBS, wbs.

Synonyms: BS
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 antimony, SB.
Consider also: exaggeration, fib, fiction, nonsense, metal, kohl.

Verb

 mislead.
Consider also: betray, deceive, cheat, beguile, misinform, delude, hoodwink, lie, misdirect.

Adjective

 unfounded.
Consider also: baseless, unwarranted, groundless, false, idle, untrue, dead, indefensible, insupportable, jobless, light, loose, undue, unjustifiable, unjustified, unused, unwarrantable.

Other

 equivocate, jabber, backspace.

Expression

 Bachelor of Science.
Consider also: bachelor's degree, base station.
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Computed Synonyms: bs

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   8.1098   bs     ms     Mrs, lady, miss, madam, mistress   
 2   3.1196   bs     bores     bears, borns, sinks, drives, carries   
 3   3.1096   bs     ives     ass, thans, ors, whiles, likes   
 4   3.1095   bs     pines     firs, yearns, pine, pined, pining   
 5   3.1095   bs     goods     lovelies, greats, handsomes, betters, good   
 6   2.1098   bs     es     is, ds, mis, ellipticities, eccentricities   
 7   2.1098   bs     cs     carbons, coals, coulombs, dos, does   
 8   2.1098   bs     ds     es, days, res, whites, brights   
 9   2.1097   bs     ins     ons, bys, withs, fors, pers   
 10   2.1096   bs     firs     pines, spruces, deals, firths, pins   
 11   2.1096   bs     thes     its, hes, ans, ones, hers   
 12   2.1095   bs     fines     lovelies, handsomes, pretties, greats, grands   
 13   2.1094   bs     drills     burrs, bits, trepans, trephines, practises   
 14   2.1094   bs     rights     justs, straights, right, directs, restores   
 15   2.1093   bs     seconds     supports, secondaries, moments, aids, instants   
--------------------     78 synonyms ranked from 16 to 93 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: bs

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.1076   bs     Communications satellite     communication satellite, telecommunications satellite, bird   
 2   1.0182   bs     broadcast satellite     communication satellite   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: bs

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   11.9994   brilliant green BS     acid brilliant green BS     green s, food green s   
 2   11.9994   acid brilliant green BS     brilliant green BS     green s, food green s   
 3   11.5583   acid brilliant green BS     green s     brilliant green BS, guar gum   
 4   10.5588   brilliant green BS     green s     acid brilliant green BS, guar gum   
 5   7.3387   BS and w     sediments and water     basic sediments and water, bottom sediments and water   
 6   7.3385   BS and w     basic sludge and water     basic sediments and water, sediments and water   
 7   7.3382   BS and w     basic sediments and water     bottom sediments and water, sediments and water   
 8   7.3381   BS and w     bottom sediments and water     basic sediments and water, sediments and water   
 9   7.1188   BS and w     basic sediments     bottom sediments, basic sediments and water   
 10   7.1188   BS and w     bad settlings     bottom settlings, basic sediments   
 11   7.1186   BS and w     bottom sediments     basic sediments, bottom sediments and water   
 12   7.1185   BS and w     bottom settlings     bad settlings, bottom sediments   
 13   3.0091   BS and w     sediment     dregs, deposit   
 14   3.0091   BS and w     deposit     sediment, store   
 15   2.1091   BS and w     lees     dregs, sediment   
--------------------     32 expressions ranked from 16 to 47 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: BS

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya كلمة بذيئة تعني كلام فارغ أو أشياء لايمكن تصديقها (BS machine). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha كلمة بذيئة تعني كلام فارغ أو أشياء لايمكن تصديقها (BS machine). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic كلمة بذيئة تعني كلام فارغ أو أشياء لايمكن تصديقها (BS machine). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 理科学士 (bs), 巴哈马 (The Bahamas, Bahamas, Bahamian, bs), 录音机 (recorder, recording machine, tape recorder, recorders, bs recorder). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 巴哈馬 (The Bahamas, Bahamas, bs), 理科學士 (bs), 錄音機 (recording machine, tape recorder, bs recorder, dictaphone, recorder). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch British Standard approx (BS). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
German British Standard approx (BS). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic كلمة بذيئة تعني كلام فارغ أو أشياء لايمكن تصديقها (BS machine). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
High German British Standard approx (BS). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch British Standard approx (BS). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 通信衛星 (broadcast satellite, communication satellite, BS, Communications satellite), つうしんえいせい (Broadcast Satellite, BS, communication satellite), 理学士 (BS), British Standardす (BS), BSゼルダの伝説 (BS Zelda). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish B (b, BS, bravo), VEB (BS). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish yüksek tabaka (fashion, gentlefolk, the BS, upper bracket). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, BS. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: BS

Language Translations for “BS” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin BSAY (BS). Additional references: Pig Latin, BS. (volunteer)
Slovio lga (BS, bullshit, lie), govno (BS, bullshit, shit), bikju govno (BS, bullshit). Additional references: Slovio, BS. (volunteer)
Terran A lga (bS, bullshit, ginger, lie), govno (bS, bullshit, shit), bikju govno (bS, bullshit). Additional references: Terran A, BS. (volunteer)
Terran B Ve (befringe, BS). Additional references: Terran B, BS. (volunteer)
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