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Ss vs Import - What's the difference?

ss | import |

As nouns the difference between ss and import

is that ss is while import is import (the act of importing).

ss

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (en-abbr)
  • Saints

    • Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • Schutzstaffel
  • social security
  • Subsahara, Subsaharan
  • spousal support
  • steam ship
  • Screw Steamer - screw-driven steamship
  • (US, Navy) Sub Surface - diesel powered attack submarine
  • Silent Sound(tm)
  • (military, rocketry) NATO prefix-code for surface-to-surface missile systems developed by the Soviet Union
  • (baseball) shortstop

    • See also

    * alimony * (submarine) SSN , SSG , SSGN , SSB , SSBN , SSK , APSS , LPSS * (NATO) CSS

    import

    English

    Etymology 1

    (verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia import)
  • (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
  • (uncountable) The practice of importing.
  • (uncountable) Significance, importance.
    • Synonyms
    * (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weight
    Antonyms
    * (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificance

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
  • To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
    • How can I import files from older versions of this application?
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "import")
    Derived terms
    * importable * important * importer * importation
    Antonyms
    * (bring in from a foreign country) export

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
  • * 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:
    • See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
  • To be of importance to (someone or something).
  • * 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
    • This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
  • * Dryden
    • If I endure it, what imports it you?
  • To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
  • * 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :
    • It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
  • To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
  • * 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":
    • It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
  • To mean, signify.
  • * Hooker
    • Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.
  • (archaic) To express, to imply.

    • References

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