s.o.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 interpretation of the signal (· · · — — — · · ·), chosen merely as a sequence that is easy to recall and transmit, as normal Morse letters.

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