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dcs | mort |

As a noun mort is

roach; a small fish.

dcs

English

===(en)===
  • (en noun)
  • A distributed control system.
  • detective chief superintendent, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries
  • Alternative forms

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    See also

    * (distributed control system) * WPC, PC

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    mort

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  • A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
  • Derived terms
    * mort cloth * mort stone

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".

    Noun

  • A great quantity or number.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • There was a mort of merrymaking.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (mortal).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
  • Antonyms
    * immort English clippings

    Etymology 4

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A three-year-old salmon.
  • Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

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