| Noun | 1. | MS - a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers degenerative disorder - condition leading to progressive loss of function demyelination - loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function induration, sclerosis - any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder - any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues |
| 2. | MS - a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil Warsiege of Vicksburg, Vicksburg - a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Gulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 South - the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery Biloxi - an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico Columbus - a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama Greenville - a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg Hattiesburg - a town in southeast Mississippi capital of Mississippi, Jackson - capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River Meridian - a town in eastern Mississippi Natchez - a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River Tupelo - a town in northeast Mississippi Vicksburg - a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves Pearl River - a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico Tombigbee, Tombigbee River - a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River Yazoo, Yazoo River - a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg | |
| 3. | MS - a master's degree in science master's degree - an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree | |
| 4. | ms - the form of a literary work submitted for publicationpiece of writing, written material, writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" | |
| 5. | Ms - a form of address for a woman form of address, title of respect, title - an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General'; "the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title" |