POS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POSes
form: POSs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of proof of service.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.
examples: text: Eight POSs are defined in traditional English grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
ref: 2009, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec, Zdravko Kačič, “Statistical Modelling of Highly Inflective Languages”, in Juan Ramón Rabuñal Dopico, Julián Dorado de la Calle, Alejandro Pazos Sierra, editors, Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, volume III (Mu–Z), Hershey, Pa.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 1468, column 1:
text: To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: PoS
glosses: Initialism of part of speech.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Initialism of point of sale or point of service.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of proprietary operating system.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Initialism of position and orientation system.
examples: text: Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.
ref: 1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent J (Will Smith):
text: Everything you lost was because you are a P.O.S,^([sic]) […]
ref: 2011, Sarreta “Whispers” Lopez, “I Have Recognized My Worth”, in I Have Arrived, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 69:
text: I told him he is a POS for saying that to me (what a terrible thing to say to my husband! I am just as guilty sometimes for saying hurtful things), and how dare he try and hurt me in such a cruel way, telling me he hates me and wishing he could tell me he was unfaithful!
ref: 2014, Harmony Rose, Married Under the Influence: A True Story, Bloomington, IN: Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
text: And you act in ways that make it right (i.e., voice says you’re a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs, which makes you act selfishly, which gives you reason to feel like a P.O.S., which makes you want the drugs), because you don’t know what kind of person you’d be if you weren’t listening to this squawk, and you don’t know what else to do.
ref: 2015, Kenton Bartlett, “Change”, in The World Needs You (A Pep Talk), C.E. Press, →ISBN, page 387:
text: There have been many times I’ve had to keep my mouth shut due to fear of something like this happening. I have been called a ‘hateful racist POS [piece of shit].’
ref: 2019 February 17, Kathrine Jebsen Moore, quoting Maria Tusken, “A Witch-hunt on Instagram”, in Claire Lehmann, editor, Quillette, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 02 Mar 2019:
glosses: Initialism of piece of shit.
raw_tags: of a person or thing
glosses: Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.
Derived terms: topics: retail
commerce
business
word: EFTPOS
word: POS terminal