Dos

Common synonyms include: denial-of-service attack, department of state, department of state, disk operating system, foggy bottom, state.

//diː oː ˈɛs// name, noun, verb

name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1
Initialism of date of service. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2
plural of do form-of, plural
"With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos." David wondered sometimes why all the pleasant things were "don'ts" and all the unpleasant ones "dos.""
3
plural of do form-of, plural
"In functional harmonic progression, three “Dos” in a row within the Do-Ti test indicate chord changes that can only be this descending third pattern."
4
A denial-of-service attack. Internet
5
A Director of Studies; someone who oversees the scholarly aspects of an institution, including faculty development and curriculum design.

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an operating system that is on a disk wordnet
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Initialism of date of separation. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies wordnet
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Initialism of denial of service. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Initialism of density of states. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Initialism of director of studies. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Initialism of disk operating system abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Initialism of death on scene. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Verb

1
To commit a denial-of-service attack against. Internet, transitive
"In addition to out-of-spec traffic, malicious packets can contain payloads that cause a system to crash. A packet's payload is taken as input into a service. If the input is not properly checked, the application can be DoSed."

Proper Noun

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Acronym of Disk Operating System, a family of disk-based operating systems. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, historical
"Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file."
2
Initialism of Department of State. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism