WS

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See also: ws, Ws, ws., ws-, .ws, w's, W's, and

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Symbol

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WS

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Samoa.
    Synonym: WSM (alpha-3)

English

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Noun

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WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

  1. Initialism of watersports (sexual practice)
    • 1977 December 3, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 14:
      GWM 25 would like to meet gay men bet 20-40 who are into W/S and light S&M.
  2. (Internet, Web) Initialism of Web service.
  3. (knitting) Initialism of wrong side.
    • 2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 41:
      with yarn in front, slip stitch purlwise on WS
  4. (law, Scotland) Initialism of writer to the signet.
  5. (music) Initialism of wavetable synthesis; a method used to generate sound by a digital music synthesizer.
  6. (baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.

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Proper noun

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WS

  1. Initialism of Western Samoa.
  2. (US) Initialism of Washington State (State of Washington)

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