So sとは 意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• 'oss, OSS, OSs, SSO, oss

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs/

語源 1

From the letters represented by the signal, chosen as a sequence that is easy to recall and transmit (· · · — — — · · ·); it is not, as is commonly believed, an abbreviation for "save our souls", "save our ship", or any other phrase.

名詞

SOS (plural SOS's or SOSes)

1. The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.

   The crew sent a frantic SOS as they realised the scale of the disaster.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "Look at wireless. Look at the S. O. S. call at sea. Is that not a benefit to mankind?"

   • 2016 August 11, “Chinese fishing boat collides with Greek freighter near Senkakus, 6 rescued”, in The Mainichi‎, archived from the original on 12 August 2016‎:

     At around 5:30 a.m., crewmembers of a JCG patrol boat received an SOS from the 106,726-ton freighter Anangel Courage. The patrol vessel and a JCG plane found the freighter on the high seas about 67 kilometers away from Uotsuri Island, one of the Senkaku Islands, which are also claimed by China.

参考

• mayday
• pan-pan

語源 2

名詞

SOS

1. Initialism of Secretary of State.
2. Initialism of special order sale.

成句

SOS

1. (colloquial) Initialism of slip on show: a warning to a woman that the underwear she has on can be seen.

語源 3

名詞

SOS (uncountable)

1. (games) A children's game in which players take turns to place S's and O's on a grid, collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence.

参考

• tic tac toe

語源 4

名詞

SOS (uncountable)

1. Initialism of shit on a shingle.

語源 5

成句

SOS

1. (Commonwealth, military, historical) Initialism of struck off strength or stricken off strength.

   Antonym: TOS

使用する際の注意点

• Only used with the past participle, chiefly in historical military records.

アナグラム

• 'oss, OSS, OSs, SSO, oss

短縮形

so's

1. So that, in order that.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

2. To the extent that.

   "Has he been working?" / "Not so's you'd notice."

語源 2

Contraction of so is.

短縮形

so's

1. So is.

   My father's at work right now. So's my mother.

語源 3

Contraction of so has.

短縮形

so's

1. So has.

   My father's gone away on holiday. So's my mother.

アナグラム

• 'oss, OSS, OSs, SSO, oss