Meaning of Ds | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of double strength.
   abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, countable, initialism, uncountable, usually
2. Abbreviation of Discord.
   abbreviation, alt-of
3. Initialism of Down syndrome.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
4. Initialism of Douglas Score (point ranking for deer antlers).
   Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
5. Initialism of detective sergeant; a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
6. Clipping of Nintendo DS.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
7. Clipping of DS Automobiles.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
8. Initialism of directing staff.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable
9. Initialism of disjunctive syllogism.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
10. Initialism of dal segno.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
11. Initialism of dear/darling son.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
12. Initialism of decision science.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Examples

“It's been rumored for months, but Square Enix finally made it official: Kingdom Hearts is coming to DS.”

“If you make a shark that looks like a kid caught with a DS under the pillow at 2 AM choose violence, you asked for it in everything but writing.”

“Let ‘F’ stand for the state of affairs that consists in finite persons possessing and exercising free will. Let ‘p’ stand for ‘God exists’; ‘q’ for ‘F obtains’; ‘r’ for ‘F poses a serious risk of evil’; and ‘s’ for ‘There is no option available to God that counters F.’ With this in place, the argument may be formalized as follows: (1) [(p & q) & r] → s Premiss (2) ~s Premiss (3) ~[(p & q) & r] 1, 2 MT (4) ~(p & q) v ~r 3 DM (5) r Premiss (6) ~(p & q) 4, 5 DS (7) ~p v ~q 6 DM (3) follows from the conjunction of (1) and (2) by modus tollens; De Morgan’s law applied to (3) yields (4); (4) and (5) together lead to (6) by disjunctive syllogism; and another application of De Morgan’s law takes us from (6) to the final conclusion, according to which either God exists or there is free will (but not both).”

“You can get the general idea from a recent comment in response to a request from a mother for advice on where to send her DS (Darling Son) to school.”

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