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Dos

//diː oː ˈɛs// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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. 2
    Initialism of Department of State. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of date of service. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 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. 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. 4
    A denial-of-service attack. Internet
  5. 5
    A Director of Studies; someone who oversees the scholarly aspects of an institution, including faculty development and curriculum design.
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  1. 6
    an operating system that is on a disk wordnet
  2. 7
    Initialism of date of separation. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 8
    the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies wordnet
  4. 9
    Initialism of denial of service. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. 10
    Initialism of density of states. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  6. 11
    Initialism of director of studies. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  7. 12
    Initialism of disk operating system abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  8. 13
    Initialism of death on scene. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Verb
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From denial of service.

Etymology 2

From denial of service.

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