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1) "Office" -- As to office os x of·fice Pronunciation: 'ä-f&s, 'o- Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin officium service, duty, office, from opus work + facere to make, do -- more at OPERATE, DO 1 a : a special duty, charge, or position conferred by an exercise of governmental authority and for a public purpose : a position of authority to exercise a public function and to receive whatever emoluments may belong to it b : a position of responsibility or some degree of executive authority 2 [Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin officium, from Latin] : a prescribed form or service of worship; specifically capitalized : DIVINE OFFICE 3 : a religious or social ceremonial observance : RITE 4 a : something that one ought to do or must do : an assigned or assumed duty, task, or role b : the proper or customary action of something : FUNCTION c : something done for another : SERVICE 5 : a place where a particular kind of business is transacted or a service is supplied: as a : a place in which the functions of a public officer are performed b : the directing headquarters of an enterprise or organization c : the place in which a professional person conducts business 6 plural, chiefly British : the apartments, attached buildings, or outhouses in which the activities attached to the service of a house are carried on 7 a : a major administrative unit in some governments <British Foreign Office> b : a subdivision of some government departments <Patent Office> synonym see FUNCTION Pronunciation Symbols An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term office may refer to business-related tasks. In legal writing, a company or organization has offices in any place that it has an official presence, even if that presence consists of, for example, a storage silo rather than an office. An office is an architectural and design phenomenon and a social phenomenon, whether it is a tiny office such as a bench in the corner of a "Mom and Pop shop" of extremely small size (see Small Office/Home Office) through entire floors of buildings up to and including massive buildings dedicated entirely to one company. In modern terms an office usually refers to the location where white-collar workers are employed during the day. An office allows an environment for office politics. - 1 History of offices
- 2 Space arrangement in offices
- 3 Office buildings
- 3.1 Standard facilities in modern office buildings
- 4 See also
- 5 References
| Messy, unorganized office The word stems from the Latin officium, as its equivalents in various mainly romance languages. Interestingly, this was not necessarily a place, but rather an often mobile 'bureau' in the sense of a human staff or even the abstract notion of a formal position, such as a magistrature. The relatively elaborate Roman bureaucracy would not be equaled for centuries in the West after the fall of Rome, even partially reverting to illiteracy, while the east preserved a more sophisticated administrative culture, both under Byzantium and under Islam. Offices in classical antiquity were often part of a palace complex or a l..."
2) "Os" -- As to office os x 1o Pronunciation: 'O Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural o's or os /'Oz/ Usage: often capitalized, often attributive 1 a : the 15th letter of the English alphabet b : a graphic representation of this letter c : a speech counterpart of orthographic o 2 : a graphic device for reproducing the letter o 3 : one designated o especially as the 15th in order or class 4 : something shaped like the letter O; especially : ZERO Pronunciation Symbols Os or OS may refer to: - Austria, WMO country code (from the German Osterreich)
- Old Stoic - a former pupil of Stowe School
- Operating system, the software that manages the hardware and software of a computer.
- The os is each end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) and external (to the vagina)
- Os, Hedmark, a municipality in Norway
- Os, Hordaland, a municipality in Norway
- Os, Østfold, a parish in Norway.
- Osmium, Os, the symbol for the chemical element
- Open Source software - see also free software
- Occasional Saint, the NZ Indie Rock group
- Oculus Sinister ("left eye" in Latin)
- Ordnance Survey the national mapping agency for Great Britain - they make maps
- Old Style Julian Calendar
- Ossetian language (ISO 639 alpha-2, os)
- Austrian Airlines, its IATA code
- Ogawa Seiki, a Japanese manufacturer of model airplane engines
- A football team from Os, Hordaland established 1905
- The Anglo-Saxon rune. One of the Æsir
- Oddstuff Oddstuff.com an Internet Site known mainly for its forums.
- Olympic Games, an international multi-sport event taking place every four years
- Outlaw Star, a popular Japanese anime
- Overseas
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3) "X" -- As to office os x 1x Pronunciation: 'eks Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural x's or xs /'ek-s&z/ Usage: often capitalized, often attributive 1 a : the 24th letter of the English alphabet b : a graphic representation of this letter c : a speech counterpart of orthographic x 2 : TEN -- see NUMBER table 3 : a graphic device for reproducing the letter x 4 : one designated x especially as the 24th in order or class, or the first in an order or class that includes x, y, and sometimes z 5 : an unknown quantity 6 : something shaped like or marked with the letter X Pronunciation Symbols | | | Basic Latin alphabet | | | Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | | | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | | Qq | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | | | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | | | The letter X is the twenty-fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is ex (/ɛks/). In phonetics, x is the IPA and X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless velar fricative (IPA is used for pronunciation throughout this article). - 1 History
- 2 Usage
- 3 Codes for computing
- 4 Meanings of X
- 5 See also
| The consonant cluster /ks/ was, in Ancient Greek, written as either Chi Χ (Western Greek) or Xi Ξ (Eastern Greek). In the end, Chi was standardized as /kʰ/ (/x/ in Modern Greek), while Xi was standardized for /ks/. But the Etruscans had taken over Χ from older Western Greek; therefore, it stood for /ks/ in Etruscan and Latin. It is unknown whether the letters Chi and Xi are Greek inventions, or whether they are ultimately of Semitic origin. Chi was placed toward the end of the Greek alphabet, after the Semitic letters, along with Phi, Psi, and Omega, suggesting that it was an innovation; further, there is no letter corresponding specifically to the sound /ks/ in Semitic. There was a Phoenician letter kheth
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