dos
/duːz/UK/dəʊz/
dos is the plural of do.
Meaning of do
Noun
do (plural dos or do's or (uncommon) doos)
- A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
- Something that can or should be done.
- Don’t forget the dos and don’ts.
- Antonyms:
- don't
- Something that has been done.
- "How come you quit?" "I'm moving to London." "Fair dos."
- Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
- A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble.1689, John Selden, Table Talk
- Synonyms:
- to-do
- A cheat; a swindler.
- An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
Noun (1) capitalized: DOS
IPA/diː oː ˈɛs/Canada/dɑs/
DOS (plural DOSes)
- Initialism of date of service.
- Initialism of date of separation.
- Initialism of denial of service.
- Initialism of density of states.
- Initialism of director of studies.
- Initialism of disk operating system
- Initialism of death on scene.
Proper noun capitalized: DOS
IPA/diː oː ˈɛs/Canada/dɑs/
DOS
- Acronym of Disk Operating System, a family of disk-based operating systems.
- Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.1993, Kris A. Jamsa, DOS: The Complete Reference, McGraw–Hill Osborne Media
- One way to do that is to turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Then, the PC performs its self-test and boots DOS.1993, Doug Lowe, The Only DOS Book You'll Ever Need, Mike Murach & Associates Incorporated, →ISBN, page 95
- Initialism of Department of State.
- Synonyms:
- Foggy Bottom
Noun (2) capitalized: DoS
IPA/diː oː ˈɛs/
Verb capitalized: DoS
IPA/diː oː ˈɛs/
DoS (third-person singular simple present DoSes, present participle DoSing, simple past and past participle DoSed)
- To commit a denial-of-service attack against.
- 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.2003, Jack Koziol, Intrusion Detection with Snort, Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 15
Noun (3) capitalized: DoS
DoS
- A Director of Studies; someone who oversees the scholarly aspects of an institution, including faculty development and curriculum design.
Synonyms of dos
Forms of dos
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | do's |
| plural | DOSes |
| plural | DoSs |
| plural | DoSes |
| alternative form | DOS |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | DoSes |
| present participle | DoSing |
| past participle | DoSed |
| past | DoSed |
Origin of dos
From denial of service.
Words formed from dos
Phrases with dos
Words that rhyme with dos
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amuse
- bemuse
- choose
- excuse
- misuse
- muse
- ooze
- peruse
- accuse
- booze
- druse
- news
- ruse
- snooze
- suffuse
- transfuse
- who's
- whose
- circumfuse
- cooze
- defuse
- diffuse
- enthuse
- flues
- fuze
- jalouse
- mews
- perfuse
- snooz
- Toulouse
- twos
- yous
- 'scuse
- accrues
- aloos
- bambooze
- blooze
- boos
- boose
- brews
- canoes
- chews
- clews
- clues
- construes
- contuse
- coos
- coups
Questions about dos
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dos (page history and authors); DOS (page history and authors); DoS (page history and authors); do (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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