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This vs Os - What's the difference?

this | os |

As nouns the difference between this and os

is that this is something being indicated that is here; one of these while OS is an Ordnance Survey map.

As a determiner this

is the (thing) here used in indicating something or someone nearby.

As an adverb this

is to the degree or extent indicated.

As a pronoun this

is the thing, item, etc. being indicated.

As an interjection this

is Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.

As an initialism OS is

ordnance Survey.

this

English

(wikipedia this)

Determiner

  • The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
  • The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
  • The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
  • A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a ... ".
  • (Of a unit of time) which is .

    • Related terms

    * that, these, those

    Derived terms

    * thisness *

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To the degree or extent indicated.
    • I need this much water.
    We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.

    Pronoun

    (en-pron)
  • The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
    • This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear , Act 1. Scene 2.

    Related terms

    * that, these, those

    Noun

    (es)
  • (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
  • * 2001 , James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology (page 151)
    • Terms like 'house', 'sphere', 'animal', and 'human' do not refer to other thises distinct from these ones here — they refer to the sort of thing these ones here are.

    Interjection

    (-)
  • (Internet slang)
    • Synonyms
    * , like * IAWTP

    Statistics

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    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).

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