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Cos   /kɔs/   Listen
Cos

noun
1.
Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.  Synonym: cosine.
2.
Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.  Synonyms: cos lettuce, romaine, romaine lettuce.


Coo

noun
1.
The sound made by a pigeon.



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"Cos" Quotes from Famous Books



... would have little doubt in supposing that such a complicated piece of machinery dated from the 18th century, at the earliest. As it is, estimates agree on ca. 65 B.C. -10 years, and we can be sure that the machine is of Hellenistic origin, possibly from Rhodes or Cos. ...
— On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass • Derek J. de Solla Price
... "'Cos Jessie's going to have one, and you told me to be original," and here the poor mite, reflecting upon the price her originality was going to cost her, ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome
... but who kept no books, used never to bother about remembering which particular dog he had put to a certain bitch, but generally satisfied himself as to the sire of a puppy when it came in from "walk" by just examining it and saying "Oh, that pup must be by owd Jock or Jim," as the case might be, "'cos he's so loike 'im," and down he would go on the entry form accordingly. However this may be, there is no doubt that the sire would be a wire-hair Fox-terrier, and, although the pedigree therefore may not have been quite right, the terrier was ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton
... a minister that could get the better of 'em?" said Mrs. Boddington. "'Cos, if you did, I would like to go and sit under his preachin' a spell, and see what he could ...
— Diana • Susan Warner
... ''Cos if you had a-guessed it you'd ha' cotch'd a left-hand body-blow that 'ud most like ha' killed you. That's what you'd ha' cotch'd. But now as we're a-goin' to part ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton


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