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ss.
1abbreviation for
- to wit; namely (used especially on legal documents, as an affidavit, pleading, etc., to verify the place of action).
SS.
2abbreviation for
- Saints.
S.S.
3abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) in the strict sense.
ss.
4abbreviation for
- sections.
- Baseball. shortstop.
SS.
5abbreviation for
- See ss. 1
S.S.
6abbreviation for
- steamship.
- Sunday School.
ss
7- (in prescriptions) a half.
SS
8- social security.
S/S
9abbreviation for
- same size.
- Medicine/Medical. signs and symptoms.
- spreadsheet ( def ). Also s/s.
SS.
1abbreviation for
- Saints
SS
2abbreviation for
- 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
- steamship
- Sunday school
SS
- An elite corps of combat troops (SS is short for Schutzstaffel , which is German for “protective shield”) formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and led by Heinrich Himmler . During the 1930s, Hitler steadily expanded the responsibilities of the SS to include the suppression of his political opponents within Germany and the persecution of the Jews (see also Jews ). The SS supervised the concentration camps .
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Example Sentences
The logic here was a little unsound—if I remember the S.S. Titanic story, “Iceberg” would have been the right name.
The Kandel family has survived Kristallnacht intact, and Eric had boarded the S.S. Gerolstein to New York.
S.S. Heying et al (2007): The success of orthodontic satellite practices.
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S. Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl.
Pipette end with the remainder of the specific serum labelled s.s.
Yes; there was plenty to go into before Samuel put down his foot, and who knew better how to go into it than S.S.?
Mr. Clarkson is come, and is about to take me down to Parndon (Mr. S.s country seat in Essex, about twenty miles from town).
You have read S.s poetry and know that the fancy displayed in it is sweet and delicate to the highest degree.
We had a melancholy letter to-day, with an account of poor Mr. S.s death.
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