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Meanings of cos in English

Catalan
enciam romà
Wikidata

Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.

        enciam romà
        Portuguese
        co-seno
        Wikidata

        Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

              co-seno

              A Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, off the Anatolian coast of Turkey.

                    Usage of cos in English
                    1
                    The teacher plays with me cos the other boys are so big.
                    The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
                    2
                    I know she looked, 'cos she couldn't quite meet my eye afterwards.
                    The Fearless
                    3
                    Everybody's afraid to say something 'cos you're going to hurt someone's feelings.
                    The Guardian
                    4
                    It's very deceiving, field sobriety test, cos it's very easy at first.
                    Love All The People
                    5
                    Yes, cos only in LA does common courtesy have to be legislated.
                    Love All The People
                    6
                    And I don't have to be anyone different, cos this is me.
                    The Guardian
                    7
                    Dad made me do it, 'cos he's scairt of old man Steadman.
                    The Second Chance
                    8
                    Actually the whole AASABC must take a break cos they are captured.
                    The South African
                    9
                    I thought: people will laugh at me 'cos I'm doing superhero comics.
                    The Guardian
                    10
                    It's getting to be a real bugger cos I'm not even asleep.
                    The undertaker's gift
                    11
                    I don't, cos wot ud keep us all from the pore-'us den.
                    Twilight Stories
                    12
                    There's no way of tellin' it, 'cos it don't' fit into words.
                    The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
                    13
                    Yas'm, I reckons he would hafter be, 'cos he's a Carolinian gen'man.
                    A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
                    14
                    She said I was a baby 'cos I wanted to play with Aoife.
                    The Irish Times
                    15
                    Cass must be thinking the same thing, 'cos she whispers, 'Myo, what if-
                    The Fearless
                    16
                    But that is good cos I need a goal to celebrate.
                    The South African
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