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Os vs Is - What's the difference?

os | is |

As verbs the difference between os and is

is that os is while is is i'm.

os

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • Ordnance Survey
  • oculus sinister — left eye
  • outsize

    • Derived terms

    * (operating system) RTOS , JeOS

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
    • We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
  • (software) operating system
    • I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
  • * 2008 , Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems
    • Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before
  • * 2010 , Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference
    • A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000
  • * 2009 , Emmett Dulaney', CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide
    • In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).

    Anagrams

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    is

    English

    (IS)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The paradigm of "to be" has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of four originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form "to be" is from .

    Alternative forms

    * 's

    Verb

    (head)
  • (be)
    • He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
    Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
    It all depends on what the meaning of is is. - (Bill Clinton)
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "is")

    See also

    * am * are * art * be * been * beest * being * was * wast * were * wert

    Statistics

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    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (head)
    • remember to dot your is
    Usage notes

    Anagrams

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