ss
part of speech
abbreviation (SS, ss)
meaning for a pupil
1) (abbreviation) SS before a ship's name stands for steamship, as in the SS Great Britain. tree →
2) (history) The SS was a violent Nazi military and police force in Germany during the Second World War, which ran concentration camps and carried out the Holocaust. tree →
3) (abbreviation) ss can mean screenshot in online chat. tree →
4) (spelling) ss is a double letter in many words, as in miss, class, kiss, often at the end after a short vowel. tree →
5) (abbreviation, church) Ss is short for Saints, as in Ss Peter and Paul. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons, the SS Great Britain was a famous early steamship (the Titanic was RMS, Royal Mail Ship); the Nazi SS is studied when learning about the Holocaust, which must be talked about seriously and truthfully. In spelling lessons, the floss rule: double s, f, l, z after a short vowel at the end of short words (miss, off, fill, buzz). In chats, ss means screenshot.
examples
- The SS Great Britain is a famous ship in Bristol. tree →
- We visited the SS Great Britain on a school trip. tree →
- The SS ran the Nazi concentration camps. tree →
- Miss, class and grass all end in ss. tree →
- Send me a ss of the score. (chat slang) tree →
- The church is called Ss Peter and Paul. tree →
note
Not a word on its own; an abbreviation or a letter pattern. The Nazi SS is a very serious topic, never a joke. Spelling rule: after a short vowel at the end of a one-syllable word, s is often doubled (pass, less), but not always (bus, yes).
In the corpora
- Root ends in ss: -ssion (discuss, discussion; express, expression).
- Roots ending in ss take -ssion: discuss, discussion; express, expression.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ss» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.