ss
(in prescriptions) a half.
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a paramilitary organization within the Nazi party that provided Hitler's bodyguard, security forces including the Gestapo, concentration camp guards, and a corp of combat troops (the Waffen-SS) in World War II
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Etymology
Origin of ss1
From the Latin word sēmis
Origin of ss.3
From the Latin word scīlicet, contraction of scīre licet “it is permitted to know”
Origin of SS.5
From the Latin word sānctī
Origin of S.S.8
From Latin sēnsū strictō
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She ultimately settled down with Lisa Hintelmann, a former magazine editor who ss the director of talent and entertainment partnerships at Audible.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2017
Until then, they are ss screening phone calls and keeping the television turned off.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2017
M ss ng P eces has nine employees, and Kuschnir expects they all would have voted even without a day off to do it.
From Inc ● Nov. 2, 2012
He demonstrated this by making an odd whistling noise, which sounded something like "s, s, ss, ss, s".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2011
I noted a deliberate change in his accent—the softened hiss of the consonants in his words, the dental chh of West Bengali softening into the sibilant ss of the East.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I thought Neil Patrick Harris arriving on the set in an SS uniform might clear it up.”
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
In 1916, the Canadian ship SS Mount Temple was sunk by a German ship.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Platner covered a tattoo he learned was a symbol adopted by the Nazi’s SS paramilitary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The first explosion ignited a second explosion at a nearby Monsanto Chemical Co. plant and caused a fire on another ship, the SS Highflyer, which then exploded 16 hours later.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Frankie and I huddled on the docks, smothered in layers of wool and fur, as we watched passengers stream down the gangway of the SS Christopher Columbus.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Werke, Bd. vi, ss. 45-6, 92-5, 254-5, by a careful comparison of which passages his real intent will become apparent.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
The Local Government Act 1888, ss. 50-63, contains provisions for the alteration of local areas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Denk. n. s. w. heft vii. ss. 41-72. does not teach that from the instant of death the fate of the wicked is irredeemably fixed.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
New Castle county, ss., the State of Delaware to Wm.
See also, ss. 389-95, for a review of the interpretation of the great Shaksperian roles by German actors like Schröder and Fleck.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
“Your place is with the victims of the SS. The issue here is not politics, but good and evil. And we must never confuse them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2016
Sirs: I should like to know your authority for the abbreviation SS. for Saints.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I can see you don't believe me. But it's true. The British. They're rounding up the SS. We are free."
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
NICHOLS' reasons for supposing "Seneschallus or Steward" could have furnished an origin of the SS.; but I am at loss to think of any grounds upon which such a guess could rest.
From Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various
Mr. Nichols states that in the first Lancastrian reigns the Collar of SS. had no pendant, though, afterwards, it had a pendant called "the king's beast."
From Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
In S/S ’12 Supreme made a shirt eerily similar.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2017
The prosthetic legs Lee designed for me to wear to open his S/S 99 show were on display in the Cabinet of Curiosities.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015
He's also the face of Prada's S/S 2013 campaign.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2013
Next door, Rei Kawakubo designed the unusual scenography for "Comme des Garçons, White Drama," which showcases her all-white S/S '12 collection ensconced in large-scale bubble formations.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2012
Browns: 40 years of fashion inspiration Models Eva Herzigova in Mark Fast S/S 09 and Claudia Schiffer in Erdem S/S 07 Photograph: Helen Seamons/Observer In fashion circles, Browns is a heavyweight name.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2010
In the late 1920s, Ronald Knox and S.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
In 2022, the festival bet big on Indian filmmaker S.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
But regardless of whether the wood has an FSC certification or not, Caroline S.S.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
But the ending is different for the S.S.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
“The S.S. Super Cool is under attack!” cried Livingston.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
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